From Bob's archive: Three notes on the 2008 financial crisis
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*A long time ago, I used to regularly schedule reposts of some of the
better old content on my blog whenever I was switching off for a couple of
weeks. ...
4 days ago
3 comments:
the ongoing fetishising of the 'exotic oppressed' - if you're a girl in congo whose been macheted in the head or a working class lad in deptford just down the road from goldsmiths who will never get a chance of a decent education then you and yours are nothing in the eyes of these romanticist adventurers
I agree there is a selective sense of outrage involved in protesting about Gaza while blithely ignoring very similar events elsewhere - e.g. in Sri Lanka. I guess it's better to do something about one injustice than do nothing at all, although I am very wary of the nonsense spouted by some 'anti-zionists' (e.g. support for Hamas).
they did not achieve anything, the scholarships were good to go before the occupation, top brass fobbed them off, had they done a small amount of research they could have engaged college mgmt in discussions and achieved a great deal more,this particular gang of respect heads are far more interested in telling everyone they are left wing and everyone else is right.
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