From: "lornascott" <lornascott-AT-V21mail.co.uk>
Subject: RE: dutch assassination
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 21:30:39 +0100


Not Tony Benn it was Enoch Powell

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Jozsef,

Could you be specific. Where do you stand with respect to his politics ?

An accomplished sociologist could also be a vile human being. To many, Tony
Benn's (hope I got the name right) 'rivers of blood' speech could sound
very  logical but as far as I am concerned it is plain racism.

So it is good old Pete Seeger that I fall back upon, 'Which side are you
on, Which side are you on'.

Soumya




Jozsef Borocz <jborocz-AT-rci.rutgers.edu>-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu on
07/05/2002 14:53:49

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Subject:  Re: dutch assassination

Those of us on this list who are from the social sciences will be perhaps
as
alarmed as I was to notice that Fortuyn, the Dutch extreme right wing media
politician assassinated yesterday was an accomplished sociologist and,
based
on the BBC coverage I receive here in Cologne, his platform vis-a-vis
immigration, cultural difference and religion was the clearest, most
un-adulterated form of modernization theory I have ever heard in political
rhetoric. In other words, his stance was *not* different from the
mainstream
anywhere in western Europe or north America, only more sharply expressed.

Jzsef Brcz



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