Do not read this -

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- if you disagree with me on some political issues. http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2007-02-18-1.html

Comments

[patchworkmind.livejournal.com]

In fact, anti-semitism is now becoming quite fashionable among American "intellectuals" -- proving once again how easily people can talk themselves into moral obscenities as long as they only talk to other people who think exactly like them.

Ha! Brilliantly put!

[guarani]

Disagreement should not be a reason to refrain from reading someone else's opinion. Impossibility to maintain a civilized discussion, on the other hand, should.

I read your warning ...

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

Oh, but I'm clicking on it anyway! Sometimes I need to be stopped!

[superversive.livejournal.com]

Too late! Too late! Orson Scott Card’s site is already on my regular reading list.

Actually I agree with him, but with that kind of rhetoric I fear he’s only preaching to the converted.

[notebuyer.livejournal.com]

Thanks -- I've read Card before with profit, and this was a good example of why I do.

[dirigibletrance.livejournal.com]

Meh.

Card's little rant there is just as rabidly anti-Arab to the same degree as accuses the author of that book being anti-Israel. He's painting the Palestinian Arabs as a horde of murdering, bloodthirsty, prideful genocidal maniacs bent on slaughtering ever jew that draws breath.

The fact is that neither of these two groups are innocent of wrongdoing.

Card having wrote this article diminishes significantly my respect for him as a writer, though. I don't think I'll be finishing "The Worthing Saga", or buying any more of his books, after all.

Speaking of Politics

[johncwright.livejournal.com]

On a completely different topic, also controversial, I was wondering if you had seen this item:

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/john_hooper/2007/03/shallow_grave_shallow_convicti.html