x-posted to my own journal. "Where are the liberal Desis??"

[gayathri]

Have any of you all heard of Dinesh D'Souza? Apparently from Mumbai but moved to the US and became apparently a right wing, conservative neo-con hack.


http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070205/pollitt

his latest book apparently states that: "9/11 was provoked by feminism, birth control, abortion, pornography, feminism, Hollywood, divorce, the First Amendment, gay marriage, and did I mention feminism?"

My favorite: "As for the veil, he approvingly quotes Sudanese radical cleric Hassan Turabi, who claims it lets women be seen as human beings." um. yea. sure. You men are SO pathetic and driven by hormones, that we women have to hide under ugly sacks so you wont lose control. (Please dont take that to mean I dont think women should veil, but it ought to be their choice, not forced on them.)

Comments

[lil-brown-bat.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that the phrase that came to mind when I first heard of D'Souza was "house nigger".

(Yeah, I'm white, but I can still recognize the behavior, I don't like it, and I don't in the last like it that white people created the situation that created the breed.)

As a survivor of suck, I can understand looking back on a sucky history and deciding that I wouldn't want to trade my life (I think you have to have been there to get that feeling at all). But that's deciding that for my life. I can't imagine looking back on a couple centuries of oppression of my whole people and saying (considering my own not-too-bad current situation) that it was all for the best.

[gayathri.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that the phrase that came to mind when I first heard of D'Souza was "house nigger".

TOTALLY

I can't beleive he'd make such a completely ridiculous statement -- how _dare_ he make such a generalization for the rest of us!? Yes, we as individuals can make our own determinations, but its the height of hubris to make it for 'all our people'.

Grr! argh!