[lit-ideas] double standards in modern society
- From: Scribe1865@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:09:55 EST
Has anyone noticed the grotesque trend of social double-standards, ironies
within ironies, getting more and more complex with each new year?
How about drugging and drinking Presidential candidates trying to appeal to
the electorate on the basis of their drugging and drinking?
Here's the Clinton/Gore/Bush example. Clinton, a man who (according to
classmate Christopher Hitchens) pounded down hashish brownies at Oxford, then
claimed he "didn't inhale"
-signed away important privacy protections to the drug war,
-then used the "I did not inhale" routine to ingratiate himself with the
section of the electorate who, at the base, identified with pot smoking as
sign of honesty and a good heart,
-even as their taxes funded the drug war.
Then the 2000 election where
-Gore (who admitted pot smoking for the same reasons) ran against
-Bush (who made political capital from his "wild youth" AND the Texas ranch
he bought as an election prop).
All the while: Hundreds of thousands of people in jail for drug offenses as
both Presidential candidates admit to some form of drug use.
C'mon, guys, how many double standards is that? Seven? Eight layers of double
standards? No one sees anything weirdly wrong with that picture?
Eric
PS: Been pursuing this thread on another list, and thought I'd drop part of
the topic here in case anyone is interested.
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