Food Eater Lad wrote:

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Originally posted by Alistair:
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.


I have been saying than if the Palastinians used Civil Disobeideince and non violent means then they would have more support for years. I Dont like Moore anymore as he is so left it hurts. I loved Roger and Me, but i think the guy makes a stance and then gathers evidence to support that stance. Rather than gathering evidence and making a conclusion. I will not be going to see Bowling for Columbine as i know his take and its ""guns are evil"". As a gun enthusiast, i dont need to pay money to be told that.
I also dont like that he can make a book called Stupid White People, but if I wrote a book called Dumb Black People i would be called a racist. I have no time for people with double standards. PLus he looks to much like my Aunt Mary.


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