"Howard Kveck" <
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> "Sierraman" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > "Howard Kveck" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> > > In article <[email protected]>,
> > > "Sierraman" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > > Protesters are often weakminded,
> > >
> > > ????????
> >
> > Duh, isn't is often like obvious?
>
> Like, totally noooo. The point was that you've made a rather gross
> overgeneralization. I'll be the first to admit that plenty of people on
the
> left haven't done as much homework as they ought to have and are not very
> eloquent at expressing themselves. The reason is because they are people,
> and people are prone to those bits of behavior. Perhaps you get this
> perspective from the coverage of protests you may have seen. From your
> description of the area you live and my experiences with it, that (the
> coverage) is likely to have been a fairly conservative take. Bay area TV
> news is generally thought of as fairly liberal, but the coverage in the
Bay
> Area of the anti-war marches last year had a distinctly non liberal slant.
> They seemed to pick the most obvious caricatures and stereotypes to put on
> - leaving the majority out of the picture. And that majority was well
> informed and articulate.
>
> Wouldn't you think that "weakminded" might be a better way to describe
> people who simply take the government at its word and never look into
> things? The media certainly did that in the run up to the war.
I remember watching the Watts fires from Dodger stadium when I was a kid, of
course that was a riot, big time protest. I actually have talked to
protesters and organizers over the years from various groups like those
proponents of nuclear power to supporters of Pro choice. One time I remember
being in the mission district in SF, where a girl was working a rally for
Pro choice. I talked to her for a while, and not claiming to be that well
informed on one of my least favorite subjects I thought I would chat her up.
I clearly filled in a few gaps for her. She seemed more like someone who was
just on the bandwagon for the ride and clearly uninformed about the issues.
I don't watch Bay Area TV for the news. I do get both east and west feeds,
but really when it comes to local news I tune into Fresno, but for the
nation, both east and west, along with CNN, MSNBC, FOX, PBS news hour, and
the internet mostly for all kinds of news sources for the really juicy
stuff. My point about weakminded is those numbers who love the mob mentality
and love a good riot without knowing the issues. I have seen this over the
years and talked to several. They seem to stand behind their cause quite
often without having studied the issues. Kind of the hard line thinking
about what sounds right, and jumping on the bandwagon without taking the
time to study the issues. Many of these types seem to want to prove how hard
they are confronting police rather then talking rationally about what
divides both sides. These are the basically the weakminded types, put them
in front of a microphone and watch them freeze up without a clue. It amazes
me even with the college crowd, that many of those jump on the chanting and
raving bandwagon end up looking a deer in the headlights of a Mack truck
when finally persuade them to engage in a rational discussion without
screaming. On the flip side of course there always those who know the issues
quite well, but they are not the many, but more then likely the few.
Certainly those who follow the pied piper without looking at both sides like
the war in Iraq as you suggest. Here is a view from the other side who
opposes CNN.
News you won't find on CNN or FOX.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
This one used to be excellent but, they seem to have vanished.
http://www.albasrah.net
Another one to have seem to have vanished was...
http://www.stopislam.com
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> Howard
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