Monday, February 2, 2009
Via PowerLine, here's an interesting video by Minnesotans Against Terrorism, of a rally on the steps of the Minnesota State Capitol. The narrators have decided to call the more moderate protesters "Fatah," and the more radical "Hamas," portraying the struggles between the two factions as a Hamas v. Fatah battle, though I'm not really sure how meaningful that is here. It's an interesting video nonetheless, showing some of the dynamics of the event. Congressman Keith Ellison tries to speak but is shouted down. Look what we're letting in to our country (Though I'd like to know who some of these characters are as I'm not even sure Mr. "Fatah" is even Middle Eastern):
"F" "F" PaleSWINE.
"Look what we're letting in to our country ..."
To indulge some irony, be careful, you're trespassing upon a certain multi-culti dogma qua subtext. I emphasize subtext because, though it is in fact a positive social/political dogma, it rarely if ever is explicated in positive/transparent terms such that it might be subjected to thoroughgoing critiques. Instead, it is posited over against various real and perceived prejudices of the past and therein is assumed to be beyond reproach and critique.
This, I suspect, is why someone like a Geert Wilders is forced to use some of the rhetoric and praxis he uses.