Alistair wrote:
"I've been reading Michael Moore's book 'Stupid White Men'.
It's a perfect exercise in how to first make a good point, and then undermine it totally by saying something stupid and ridiculous.
Case in point: He writes a sensible piece advocating Non-Violent Civil Disobedience for Palestinians, and points out how it would help both their cause and the general cause of peace in the region. Then he goes and suggests that the problems in Northern Ireland can be solved if a proportion of the Loyalist Protestant population converted to Catholicism!
Yes, duh, sure that would mean that a majority would reject British rule, but it's never, never going to happen. So, either he's trying to make a faceitious point about the Palestinian situation and suggesting that non violent protest there is as unlikely to happen as Loyalists converting to Catholicism (which unfortunatley, is probably true, but it's still more likely than the UVF hanging pictures of the Pope on their walls) or he's showing that he really doesn't understand the situation, and by doing so casts doubt on all his conclusions.
No wonder the US has turned to the repugnant right if the voice of dissent is this fractured."
