David
I'm struggling with myself here.
I'm finding a lot of what you're saying offensive. Just as offensive as if
some fundamentalist Islamist or extremist Rabbi was suddenly telling me that
I ought to be stoned because I am a godless woman who had children out of
wedlock, or condemned other women here for being gay. Underneath the
HIS-STORY you're proclaiming in capital letters (are you really serious?) is
a long her-story of violent misogyny: it's not just the racism you're
displaying here.
(Eg: If Islam is self-evidently violent because of tv images of suicide
bombers, why is Christianity absolved when it is equally self evidently
violent? Or didn't you hear Lt. Col. Brandl who, before going in to flatten
Fallujah, a town of 300,000 people, said to his troops: "The enemy has got a
face. He's called Satan. He's in Fallujah, and we're going to destroy him."
Holy War, anyone?)
You're clearly pushing my envelope, and doing so deliberately; perhaps you
want to see how far tolerance can go, so you can claim a martyrdom. This
is, I acknowledge, the classic liberal dilemma; luckily I'm not a classic
liberal. Perhaps I'd feel different if I thought there was any sense of you
actually listening to other people, rather than merely a apparent desire to
be provocative. But trolling, I remind you, is not welcome here.
Perhaps I'm feeling particularly fragile today. I'll see what other list
members think.
A
Alison Croggon
Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
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