Re: [weisbrot-columns] (fwd)

2000-05-11 Thread Ricardo Duchesne
This discussion is of no interest to the list. How do you know that?

Re: Re: [weisbrot-columns] (fwd)

2000-05-11 Thread Michael Perelman
I am not going to rise to your bait. Your love of stirring up controversy keeps you from being able to be a positive contributor to the list. Ricardo Duchesne wrote: This discussion is of no interest to the list. How do you know that? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California

Re: [weisbrot-columns] (fwd)

2000-05-11 Thread Ricardo Duchesne
Simulating activism is not the only way to be positive...guess I blew it again. I'll be on my periodical unsub anytime soon, anyways. I am not going to rise to your bait. Your love of stirring up controversy keeps you from being able to be a positive contributor to the list. Ricardo Duchesne

Re: [weisbrot-columns] (fwd)

2000-05-10 Thread Ricardo Duchesne
Mine, Am only trying to argue that one cannot take on such a huge moral burden as "liberation of third world from western oppression", or from capitalism, without examining one's social position within the West. There's a real moral dilemma when a person living in it up in the West demands

Re: [weisbrot-columns] (fwd)

2000-05-09 Thread Ricardo Duchesne
Mine wrote: Besides the problems with the article (which i have not read in details), the fact that Indians make "commercial movies" should not lead you to normalize the brutality of western imperialism and epidemic violence done to third world people. did you ever attempt to think why Indian

Re: Re: [weisbrot-columns] (fwd)

2000-05-09 Thread Michael Perelman
Ricardo, you keep skating close to the edge. You say that you do not intend to provoke, but you seem to poke and poke -- maybe just to get a reaction. We do not need that here. Ricardo Duchesne wrote: Now you are getting high on pity which is another trait of third worldists who think that

Re: [weisbrot-columns] (fwd)

2000-05-08 Thread md7148
Besides the problems with the article (which i have not read in details), the fact that Indians make "commercial movies" should not lead you to normalize the brutality of western imperialism and epidemic violence done to third world people. did you ever attempt to think why Indian directors

Re: Re: [weisbrot-columns] (fwd)

2000-05-08 Thread Brad De Long
Besides the problems with the article (which i have not read in details), the fact that Indians make "commercial movies" should not lead you to normalize the brutality of western imperialism and epidemic violence done to third world people. did you ever attempt to think why Indian directors shift

Re: Re: Re: [weisbrot-columns] (fwd)

2000-05-08 Thread Mine Aysen Doyran
Brad, this sentence does not belong to me. My post was a reply to Ricardo's post about Indian film producers. please, read Ricardo's entire response, then you will make the connection. merci, Mine I did not write: Why this extraordinary desire to keep Africa from exporting textiles to