[lit-ideas] Political Stereotyping and Profiling

In a message dated 7/29/2004 3:16:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
JulieReneB@xxxxxxx writes:
strong right-wing contingency on Theoria.
Discussion tend to evolve between groups who reduce all issues to moral 
questions and groups who reduce issues only to question of Realpolitik and 
expediency.
In my case, I'm in favor of total war against Islamists. However in domestic 
policy I am practically a socialist. It makes sense to me that if we are to 
"win" this cultural conflict, "our side" has to offer the very best to its 
citizens, not just empty Ayn Rand and numbing fundie Christianity. Otherwise 
what 
are we fighting to protect?

I also have a poet-acquaintance who is a doctrinaire Marx-reading communist. 
She is pro-war because Al Qaeda is an enemy of the proletariat.

It is amusing and weird, as Paul Stone noted, to have people mistake one's 
intentions. Even more so to have people who espouse multicultural tolerance, 
etc., to label one a rightwinger because one believes a certain aspect of Bush 
policy may have merits. Talk about stereotyping and political profiling.


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