What's filtered is a link between anti-war and anti-US casualties. The jingoists try very hard to protect their franchise in grief, for good reason. It's their best among an array of shitty arguments.
-----Original Message----- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Doug Henwood Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 12:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: maxspeak redesign -- addendum Max B. Sawicky wrote: >Because I'd like to influence U.S. public opinion >against the war, and the U.S. public doesn't give >a shit about non-U.S. casualties or costs. US public opinion is one big monolithic bloc? Sure there's a hardcore that doesn't give a shit - and probably even a harder core that's happy to see hundreds of thousands of Iraqis die - but I'm pretty sure there are a lot of people who just don't know, because it's been effectively kept from them. Aren't you bloggers supposed to be circumventing the media filters? Doug
