WISHFUL THINKING
Journalist and author Antony Loewenstein's latest post is titled "They hate us". The post links to, and has excerpts from, the Guardian and Common Dreams. The thing is, neither linked article discusses the hate "they" have for "us". Angry Ant slipped up here; he meant to write "I hate us".
posted by Anonymous at 8:52 PM |
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Perhaps the title refers to Loewenstein's conclusions (love em or leave em) rather than the conclusions drawn by the authors of the linked articles.
With Ant it's often necessary to speculate as to what he's on about. For example, what does he mean when he says we have "achieved a litany of false hopes"?
With Ant it is not necessary to speculate what he is on about. You can safely assume he means to say that he hates Israel and his nascent masculinity and anything that could represent this.
Perhaps he meant to say 'I hate me'. This sort of self-hatred is also present in Michael Moore, who continually directs his ire at the 'white American male' demographic, partly because he identifies so clearly with that demographic himself. Lots of material for the psychologists there, I think.
You have to respect a thinker who can, at once, call for "a serious examination of the role being played by Australian troops in Afghanistan" and (without any examination, serious or otherwise) state "It’s time for them to return to Australia, before more are killed." Think Tank material, I think, oh wait...
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