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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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 Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:55 pm Post subject: Katha Pollitt on Bill Ayers |
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From the left-leaning Nation magazine...
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I realize this is ancient history. As a friend who doesn't see why I am raking this all up argues, it's not as if today's left is bristling with macho streetfighters. It's hard to imagine anyone now applauding the Manson murders, as Dohrn notoriously did in l969, or dedicating a manifesto to, among others, Sirhan Sirhan. But just because it's ancient history doesn't mean you get to rewrite it to make yourself look good, just another idealistic young person upset about the war and racism. We were all upset about the war and racism. I knew people in the Progressive Labor Party who were so upset they joined the army to radicalize the troops. A freshman in my dorm was so upset she quit college, joined the October League, and went to organize in an auto-parts factory, where last I heard maybe a decade ago, she was still at work. Of the many thousands of people involved in the movement one way or another, only a handful thought the thing to do was to form a tiny sect and blow things up in the service of a ludicrous fantasy : ie, creating a white-youth fighting force that would join up with black nationalists, end the war and overthrow capitalism. Oh, and anyone who didn't see why that was the right,necessary and indeed only possible course of action was a sellout and a coward.
I wish Ayers would make a real apology for the harm he did to the antiwar movement and the left. Not another "regrets, I've had a few," "we were all young once," "don't forget there was a war on" exercise in self-promotion, but one that showed he actually gets it. I'd like him to say he's sorry for his part in the destruction of Students for a Democratic Society. He's sorry he helped Nixon make the antiwar movement look like the enemy of ordinary people. He's sorry for his more-radical-than-thou posturing, and the climate of apocalyptic nuttiness he helped fuel to disastrous results, of which the fatal Brinks robbery, committed by erstwhile comrades who became even crazier than Ayers' crew, was only the most notorious.
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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| I like her position. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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Not going to happen.
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| Bill Ayers: Well you know my answer is that the kind of culture of apology doesn� t appeal to me. |
Personally, I don't see the point of a public apology either.
This idea that we all have to go on Oprah or Dr.Phil and cry to the nation for our 'sins' is ridiculous.
Personally, I have a lot more respect for the man for seeing this entire political fiasco for what it is, and NOT doing some ridiculous fake tears 'I have sinned' acting job on national TV, for viewer's pleasure. |
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Jandar
Joined: 11 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes it is a good position. |
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