Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 14:42:48 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: NYT Op-Ed Salman Rushdie 271102


> Don't blame them for not speaking.  Blame yourselves

> for not listening.  

while it's nice that ppl are writing, if the populace
don't know where to find the other views or for that
matter don't know they exist it's hard to blame them.
you can't expect everyone to be subscribing to
periodicals of academia, where the valid info resides.

if someone writes something in a scholarly journal
about the positive elements of islam, do you really
think joe public is going to know where to get that
info? especially if he doesn't know it exists. the
fact of the matter is ppl read newspapers no one reads
scholarly periodicals (by no one i mean the vast
majority of the populace) as they're not made
available enough in the marketplace frequented by the
masses. 

and until academia and dissident groups are able to
unite with capital to make opposing views heard on a
mass level in the mainstream media i think it's
pointless to blame the citizenry for being ignorant.
blame should be lain at the feet of those who control
the media and produce the lop-sided vision.

gr3g

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'every government is a dictatorship. every leader, a tyrant.'   -anonymous 


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