I would also like to add that, unlike Stott, I'm actually quite proud of much of the blogosphere response. If you dig deeper into those super-partisan or super-ideological rants, you'll actually find that many people involved pretty much agree with him on the substantive issues if not the meta ones; for instance, see the Nielsen Haydens' blog (http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/), which normally is about as passionately Dem-partisan as they come. (The reason China Miéville found it easy to be nonpartisan is that he's an English Marxist; everyone in America is a ridiculous far-right stooge as far as he's concerned.)
I have, so far, only seen one (1) non-ironic mention of secret weather control machines. Maybe because I'm not looking in the right places. (However, I have seen a fair amount of outrageously racist barf about cannibals and such.)
The Sept. 11th attacks didn't unite America because we were better people then. They united America because
(1) it was a deliberate attack by a foreign enemy; (2) it scared all of us half to death (I think a lot of that was actually thanks to the mysterious Mr. Anthrax in the subsequent days; wonder where he is now?) (3) the victims did not run vastly poorer or blacker than the American mean—I speak not so much of conscious racism/classism here as of the general sense of social estrangement from people who seem different and aren't perceived as living the same way; (4) Bush was still a new president and there was a desire to cut him some slack on those grounds.
And I suspect we'll soon be able to add that (5) there was no Refugee Problem to speak of.
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Date: 2005-09-07 06:17 am (UTC)I have, so far, only seen one (1) non-ironic mention of secret weather control machines. Maybe because I'm not looking in the right places. (However, I have seen a fair amount of outrageously racist barf about cannibals and such.)
The Sept. 11th attacks didn't unite America because we were better people then. They united America because
(1) it was a deliberate attack by a foreign enemy;
(2) it scared all of us half to death (I think a lot of that was actually thanks to the mysterious Mr. Anthrax in the subsequent days; wonder where he is now?)
(3) the victims did not run vastly poorer or blacker than the American mean—I speak not so much of conscious racism/classism here as of the general sense of social estrangement from people who seem different and aren't perceived as living the same way;
(4) Bush was still a new president and there was a desire to cut him some slack on those grounds.
And I suspect we'll soon be able to add that (5) there was no Refugee Problem to speak of.