> I cannot see any jusifictaion for people thinking they are being attacked or > made to feel guilty by the assertion that what we do has political ramfications. > I doubt it is possible to live and consume nowadays without handing over money > to a situation we would not like. > No one suggested one should not buy jeans or zucchini. All that was being > pointed out is that everything we do has ramifications.
If you had written all this at the beginning, I would have had a completely different undertstanding. However, initially you said "We all live and we all make choices and those choices are political. Choice in what we think, what we buy, what we eat, who we give to, even who we sleep with. It is all politcal." and Debra replied in part "The phrase "the personal is political" has been around a long time. Our every action shows what our political beliefs are." When people use words like "choice," "personal" and "every action shows what our political beliefs are" and then go on to talk about how we buy food and clothing processed or made by people under slavery, isn't is being implied somewhere in there that we have "chosen" by our "personal actions" reflecting our "political beliefs" to support oppression and poverty? If we have personal choice in this, don't most assume that we then have personal responsibility for the ramifications? But now you seem to be absolving most from accountibility for the ramifications because there is not much we can do about it. Maybe my mind is too literal and follows a string of logic that isn't meant to be there? > Perhaps some people need to feel attacked or guilty in order to feel alive. Well I'm glad I don't need to feel guilty anymore - I'm not a rich republican - yay! Kakki
