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this is crazy:
to go from a complex situation (holland) about which it is really difficult to work out a clear sense of what exactly has been happening--i know the parallel scenario in france pretty well but am waiting to learn more before i try to map the two onto each other--because i dont think it works well---to a call for religious war is wrong.
it is wrong analytically: all you do is recapitulate the logic of the far right, which is itself a party to creating this conflict.
it is wrong politically in that it abandons having to interact with situations in favor of a murderous simplicity.
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it is wrong ethically. when i read this, i think about how this same logic would impact on me, on those close to me who are muslim. it is irresponsible to indulge this kind of racist logic. particularly if you are going to cover it by accusing the "enemy" of being fascist.
i find it unnerving, the ease with which folk are able to make move uncritically.
just goes to show that we have learned almost nothing from the last century and its flirtation with this kind of thinking.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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