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from a FB discussion where someone maintains that if Syrians who are "thanking" McCain for "opposing" Assad can be forgiven for making an exception to his right wing and racist politics, then so too can an "exception" be made for a "progressive" politician like Dennis Kucinich for not opposing Assad "strongly enough" - And really, it is only Syrians, and not even all of them, who are expressing gratitude to McCain, and only for the reasons Dennis mentioned here. Many of us in the Syrian solidarity movement who are making this point about WHY many Syrians are mourning McCain, are in the same breath criticising the remainder of McCain's career - so its a moot point to suggest a double standard is being applied. You may be staunchly opposed to fascism and the KKK and its ilk. But if some terrible violent attack happened against you and your family, and your KKK-loving neighbour was the only person to come and defend you, you would still continue to hate the KKK, but you might find yourself making some humanising exception for the one who saved your family's life when nobody else would help. We all do this - we harbour feelings of gratitude for the person or group that stands up for us when we are being attacked, especially if it is a matter of life and death, and we don't spend a lot of time delving into the rest of their lives looking for their faults. This is because survival is a more basic human instinct that political theory. All we are saying is people need to cut Syrians who praise McCain some slack - because the people who should have been there standing with them were standing instead with the Butcher Assad - this is, and will remain forever in history, a shocking instance of collaboration with genocide. There is simply no other way to slice it. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
