It's more the fact that they -aren't- making themselves relevant by such sloppy logic that pissed me off. Elections are coming up fast here in Oz, and it irks me that alternatives to the major parties are making themselves so unappealing, especially for the yoof. It's all very well preaching to the already-converted, but conveying the message in an intelligible way to the fence-sitters is just as important.
As for capitalism accelerating many of the nasties of the world, I'm totally with you there (well, other than the racism thing - I have no idea how you're defining it, but I am having an extremely hard time believing that it/xenophobia in general are artifacts of colonialism. Crusades, anyone?). Capitalism totally serves to exacerbate in an extreme way (growth at all costs!) the problems that human beings (actually, animals in general) have with resource competition.
And I'm not being unfair at all to a stupid banner that can be shot down in flames using the most rudimentary knowledge of history - if they had said perpetuates or drives or even depends upon the various forms of exploitation, I'd have been right there with them. It doesn't have to be "nuanced", just not blatantly ridiculous - then more people might be more willing to read the more nuanced discussion in the paper itself.
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Date: 2010-07-26 03:11 am (UTC)As for capitalism accelerating many of the nasties of the world, I'm totally with you there (well, other than the racism thing - I have no idea how you're defining it, but I am having an extremely hard time believing that it/xenophobia in general are artifacts of colonialism. Crusades, anyone?). Capitalism totally serves to exacerbate in an extreme way (growth at all costs!) the problems that human beings (actually, animals in general) have with resource competition.
And I'm not being unfair at all to a stupid banner that can be shot down in flames using the most rudimentary knowledge of history - if they had said perpetuates or drives or even depends upon the various forms of exploitation, I'd have been right there with them. It doesn't have to be "nuanced", just not blatantly ridiculous - then more people might be more willing to read the more nuanced discussion in the paper itself.