Reading Kathleen Belew's book Bring the War Home really drives home just how differently different populations are treated in the United States and in the press. She argues Timothy McVeigh was actually part of a movement but the network around him was excised from the narrative because of our society's aversion to acknowledging organized non-state violence committed by white men.
"[Seldowitz was a] longtime State Department diplomat who was deputy director and senior political advisor to the agency’s Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs from 1999 to 2003"
I have to wonder if Mr. Seldowitz ever let slip with his views on Muslims while at the office? Did his co-workers just look the other way if he did? Of course, anyone could look at the US handling of the Israel/Palestine issue under multiple Presidents and see we weren't the "honest brokers" we claimed to be. The idea that a flaming bigot might be allowed to work on such a sensitive question should come as a surprise to no one.
Thanks, Parker. I'll be 75 next month. I've seen this kind of irrational hatred every time the US prepares to go to war. It's a herd instinct, giving us permission to stop thinking. It will lead us to oblivion, to self-destruction. We need more writers like you to help us move back from the precipice.
One of my neighbors (here in the Bay Area, CA) is absolutely obsessed with "the evil of Islam" and takes every opportunity to bring it up in conversation whenever I have the misfortune of getting caught in a conversation with him (usually when putting the trash out, once a week). He's even written a self-published book about the world's problems that goes on and on about Islam. He mostly gets his information from "videos on YouTube"... sigh... He's also a big fan of Jordan Peterson's videos :( I don't know where he initially got into this craziness but there is no shaking it at this point (but I continue to try to educate him... he's been my neighbor for 22 years now).
Reading Kathleen Belew's book Bring the War Home really drives home just how differently different populations are treated in the United States and in the press. She argues Timothy McVeigh was actually part of a movement but the network around him was excised from the narrative because of our society's aversion to acknowledging organized non-state violence committed by white men.
"[Seldowitz was a] longtime State Department diplomat who was deputy director and senior political advisor to the agency’s Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs from 1999 to 2003"
I have to wonder if Mr. Seldowitz ever let slip with his views on Muslims while at the office? Did his co-workers just look the other way if he did? Of course, anyone could look at the US handling of the Israel/Palestine issue under multiple Presidents and see we weren't the "honest brokers" we claimed to be. The idea that a flaming bigot might be allowed to work on such a sensitive question should come as a surprise to no one.
Thanks, Parker. I'll be 75 next month. I've seen this kind of irrational hatred every time the US prepares to go to war. It's a herd instinct, giving us permission to stop thinking. It will lead us to oblivion, to self-destruction. We need more writers like you to help us move back from the precipice.
One of my neighbors (here in the Bay Area, CA) is absolutely obsessed with "the evil of Islam" and takes every opportunity to bring it up in conversation whenever I have the misfortune of getting caught in a conversation with him (usually when putting the trash out, once a week). He's even written a self-published book about the world's problems that goes on and on about Islam. He mostly gets his information from "videos on YouTube"... sigh... He's also a big fan of Jordan Peterson's videos :( I don't know where he initially got into this craziness but there is no shaking it at this point (but I continue to try to educate him... he's been my neighbor for 22 years now).