The Rape of Logic

[desdemona]

here's an interesting article that examines the right's interpretation of the abuse handed out by the US military, interesting, but as the writer concludes all a bunch of bull, an examination of the whole conservative movement which is dominating the country of late.

The Rape of Logic: Conservatives and Abu Ghraib

[9 June 2004]

by Terry Sawyer

Conservatives have a rich (and r$ch) history of denying that oppression has any meaningful ramifications in the allocation of resources or in the choices people make. In the '80s, the urban city poor were dubbed the "underclass", a stealthily eugenic term which simultaneously absolves most external factors and condemns a huge swatch of society to congenital inferiority. Similarly, the Right has heralded a utopian era where racism no longer exists, not because it's true, but because it makes the effects of racism on minorities a matter of simple "choice", and vitiates the need to redress inequality through affirmative action policies. From violence against women to homophobia, conservatives have consistently boiled away the nuance of every social problem to a problem of individuals and choices. In short, let's cut rich people's taxes and let everyone else rot in hell but pretend we're making profound statements about human will.

read the entire article here:

http://www.popmatters.com/columns/sawyer/040609.shtml

[slum_goddess]

What kind of government leadership writes legal memo's that try to figure out ways around the Geneva conventions to legitimize terror and torture?

all together now, kids: 'OUR kind of government!' YAY us!

:angry:

but seriously, i think a lot of the problem has to do w/hubris. *bastards*

Edited June 13, 2004 by slum_goddess

[Wolfie]

What kind of government leadership writes legal memo's that try to figure out ways around the Geneva conventions to legitimize terror and torture? As far as Im concerned these are crimes against humanity, and these people are not part of any American tradition I've ever heard of and they ought to be put in jail.

I agree. This is hypocrisy to the extreme. When other countries which we have a political agenda against (our friends can do all the torture they want of thier dissidents and no one says a peep) do such things, our self-rightious outrage knows no bounds. However when we do it (and get caught) all the political spinners come out of the woodwork and start justifying it. Utterly contemptable imo. :reallymad: :reallymad: :reallymad: