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Originally posted by tw
... But what surprised me is the numbers of us - we - people who would complain about dead Americans from an ambushed convoy, but not complain about same picture of a dead Iraqi soldier. This, my friends, is the same emotion that creates racism. The double standard. That Iraqi soldier deserved the same complaining from those who complained that Al Jezzera showed dead American bodies. Double standards that make me embarrased of some of our peers.
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I read an article a few days ago by a guy who'd given up tv completely. To write his essay he turned on the tube for a few seconds on a few stations and wrote about what he saw. He picked apart the ugliness that the tv viewer gets used to. His main point was that folks who watch television become hardened to all kinds of things human beings should never take easily. I don't complain because I'm not watching news gore or reading those magazines which feature death.
We live in a society which accepts and worships violence. We have a nation full of folks who don't want to upset the economic applecart, assuming or wishing that our leaders know whats best. The defense sector is about the last of American manufacturing so nobody wants to kill that off. Our economic house of cards rests on violence and oil, so who wants it to collapse? The Bush wars are not about self defense but rather global hegemony and corporate capitalism, which to me isn't an acceptable use of violence. Unfortunately, to America this violence is necessary to feed and clothe us. This is our culture of death.