Sunday, November 27, 2011
A break from confusion
I still can't figure out the attitudes of Western media and governments toward the Arab Spring.
Fact: The new governments in the Arab world are strongly Islamic, which is GOOD for their own people and BAD for foreigners.
Confusion: Our media (both right and left) seem to favor those new governments, but for entirely backwards reasons. They can't comprehend why the new gov'ts are good for their own people, because "good for own people" is an UNTHINKABLE UNTHINKABLE UNTHINKABLE PROTECTIONIST ISOLATIONIST FASCIST RACIST SEXIST HOMOPHOBIC NAZI HALLIBURTON idea.
Instead, our media seem to believe the new governments are "democratic", whatever the fuck that means. In their minds, "democratic" implies that the new governments should be maximally friendly to Jews and homosexuals, and should be completely intolerant of ordinary Muslim families.
This confusion was NOT created by the new Arab governments. From the start they have been perfectly open about their nationalist and Islamic tendencies, and about their rejection of foreigners and deviants.
So our media like the new gov'ts for a quality that exists only in the scrambled minds of the media; dislike the new gov'ts for their actual and honestly expressed intentions; and hope to reshape the new gov'ts to be exactly like the old gov'ts which the Arab people just overthrew.
Bizarre.
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BBC did a one-hour special on Egypt this morning, showing the confusion in full flower.
But correspondent Lyse Doucet redeemed the whole thing by asking two magnificently powerful questions, two questions that our media never ask of our own people.
She asked an ordinary Egyptian worker: "How has this change affected your own life?" He answered "Not at all."
She then asked an even better question: "What would you like to happen in the future, in your own life?" He answered that he would like a chance to stop working for a while and get an education.
No American reporter has ever asked an American "What would you like to happen in your own life?" They only ask mindless partisan questions. "What do you think of Our Lord And Savior And Living Saint Barack Obama, Blessèd Be His Most Holy And Sacred Name?" Or, "What do you think of RACIST SEXIST HOMOPHOBIC NAZI FASCIST BIG OIL HALLIBURTON HALLIBURTON HALLIBURTON Rick Perry, who needs to be tortured and executed immediately?"
Fact: The new governments in the Arab world are strongly Islamic, which is GOOD for their own people and BAD for foreigners.
Confusion: Our media (both right and left) seem to favor those new governments, but for entirely backwards reasons. They can't comprehend why the new gov'ts are good for their own people, because "good for own people" is an UNTHINKABLE UNTHINKABLE UNTHINKABLE PROTECTIONIST ISOLATIONIST FASCIST RACIST SEXIST HOMOPHOBIC NAZI HALLIBURTON idea.
Instead, our media seem to believe the new governments are "democratic", whatever the fuck that means. In their minds, "democratic" implies that the new governments should be maximally friendly to Jews and homosexuals, and should be completely intolerant of ordinary Muslim families.
This confusion was NOT created by the new Arab governments. From the start they have been perfectly open about their nationalist and Islamic tendencies, and about their rejection of foreigners and deviants.
So our media like the new gov'ts for a quality that exists only in the scrambled minds of the media; dislike the new gov'ts for their actual and honestly expressed intentions; and hope to reshape the new gov'ts to be exactly like the old gov'ts which the Arab people just overthrew.
Bizarre.
= = = = =
BBC did a one-hour special on Egypt this morning, showing the confusion in full flower.
But correspondent Lyse Doucet redeemed the whole thing by asking two magnificently powerful questions, two questions that our media never ask of our own people.
She asked an ordinary Egyptian worker: "How has this change affected your own life?" He answered "Not at all."
She then asked an even better question: "What would you like to happen in the future, in your own life?" He answered that he would like a chance to stop working for a while and get an education.
No American reporter has ever asked an American "What would you like to happen in your own life?" They only ask mindless partisan questions. "What do you think of Our Lord And Savior And Living Saint Barack Obama, Blessèd Be His Most Holy And Sacred Name?" Or, "What do you think of RACIST SEXIST HOMOPHOBIC NAZI FASCIST BIG OIL HALLIBURTON HALLIBURTON HALLIBURTON Rick Perry, who needs to be tortured and executed immediately?"
Labels: Natural law = Sharia law
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