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Title: WELL, THAT WAS FUN Post by: Ayinde on September 08, 2004, 12:44:51 PM Huge, ineffectual protests make me proud to be a white middle-class coward.
By Matt Taibbi I'm not talking about your white-guy fros, mutton-chops and beads. I'm not talking about your Che t-shirts or that wan, concerned, young-Joanie-Baez look on the faces of half of your women. I'm not even talking about skinny young potheads carrying wood puppets and joyously dancing in druid-circles during a march to protest a bloody war. I'm not harping on any of that. I could, but I won't. Because the protests of the last week in New York were more than a silly, off-key exercise in irrelevant chest-puffing. It was a colossal waste of political energy by a group of people with no sense of history, mission or tactics, a group of people so atomized and inured to its own powerlessness that it no longer even considers seeking anything beyond a fleeting helping of that worthless and disgusting media currency known as play. Full Article at nypress.com (http://www.nypress.com/17/36/news&columns/Taibbi2.cfm) Title: Re: WELL, THAT WAS FUN Post by: Oshun_Auset on September 08, 2004, 02:55:11 PM Great article. I like how organization is being stressed. IMHO it should be considered an immoral act for individuals not to be part of a progressive organization.
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