Tuesday, December 22, 2009

One of the shortest and most insightful comments I've seen in years

"Surely if you need the other side to produce a Gandhi, then you are on the wrong side."

Found on Modoweiss, here.

3 comments:

  1. Nice concise statement.

    I wish we lived in a world without sides . . . a world where everyone was on everyones side.

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  2. it's not really the isrealis who say this, though. it's the "sympathizers" who support palestinians only if they fight "virtuously", although the other side's brutality is unbounded. paraphrasing fanon; he explained this well.

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  3. Malcolm X said the black man is not supposed to get upset,  because than he becomes "the angry black man."  He put it in the context of a lynching,  he is not supposed to cry out or struggle,  or try to escape - he is supposed to sing "We Shall Overcome" as he is lynched.

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