its good to hear Ed luce again, us english tend to have a lesser view of what the american called the "far left", americans call a far leftish a person who wants a single player heath care scheme[and then look upon him as a communist ,socialist eating baby killer], where as in england we look at that as a centre-left person, and a far le…
its good to hear Ed luce again, us english tend to have a lesser view of what the american called the "far left", americans call a far leftish a person who wants a single player heath care scheme[and then look upon him as a communist ,socialist eating baby killer], where as in england we look at that as a centre-left person, and a far left person who is more a marxist[someone like corben]...its a different scale of view...equally when we see a protest, with our police its just given a more cautious "isolation them and let it die down " approach, as per the long standing american police/media view of "it must be putdown and let us show strenght that we have public law and order in control" view of things[usually with violence which we were with some irony considering their supposed views of free speech etc].......a great comedy sketch in england[on tv], once had a hill street blues type of theme, where a hoodie person ran into a dead end with a wire fence as the two american cops ran after him catching up with the shout from one "freeze dont move", as the criminal relaxed,turn around and held his hands up, as the policeman then shoot him, the other cop says "hey , great shot", and the other finishes the sketch with "yeah , i know, but i cant hit them when they move", as a great indictor of our views about american policing :(
i could go on about mona's narrative of addressing the protesters as between yogurt eating hippies[which the right hate] to hamas loving supporters[which everybody hates] as a more than a little bit extreme [shrugs] but in this heightened state of her views, i will let it pass, just reflecting i think damon has the smarter more nuanced take here[seen as he is on campus], with broad agreement with my fellow englishman :)
its good to hear Ed luce again, us english tend to have a lesser view of what the american called the "far left", americans call a far leftish a person who wants a single player heath care scheme[and then look upon him as a communist ,socialist eating baby killer], where as in england we look at that as a centre-left person, and a far left person who is more a marxist[someone like corben]...its a different scale of view...equally when we see a protest, with our police its just given a more cautious "isolation them and let it die down " approach, as per the long standing american police/media view of "it must be putdown and let us show strenght that we have public law and order in control" view of things[usually with violence which we were with some irony considering their supposed views of free speech etc].......a great comedy sketch in england[on tv], once had a hill street blues type of theme, where a hoodie person ran into a dead end with a wire fence as the two american cops ran after him catching up with the shout from one "freeze dont move", as the criminal relaxed,turn around and held his hands up, as the policeman then shoot him, the other cop says "hey , great shot", and the other finishes the sketch with "yeah , i know, but i cant hit them when they move", as a great indictor of our views about american policing :(
i could go on about mona's narrative of addressing the protesters as between yogurt eating hippies[which the right hate] to hamas loving supporters[which everybody hates] as a more than a little bit extreme [shrugs] but in this heightened state of her views, i will let it pass, just reflecting i think damon has the smarter more nuanced take here[seen as he is on campus], with broad agreement with my fellow englishman :)