MadelynIris
Refugee
Don't you guys know any pissed off Iranians?
The political tension in Iran brought nearly 1,000 people to the streets of Toronto on Sunday as Iranian-Canadians gathered to protest a rumoured rigged election in their homeland.
I was searching FYM for a thread about this yesterday and was really unnerved to see there was none. The lack of coverage on this topic is disturbing.
The lack of coverage on this topic on television is disturbing.
I was searching FYM for a thread about this yesterday and was really unnerved to see there was none. The lack of coverage on this topic is disturbing.
Andrew Sullivan's blog is a great place to follow, with links to the utterly amazing (and some insanely brave, sad etc) Twitter accounts.
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
As an aside, I think almost definitely a media-turning point as well.
Wow, nothing new? They're dying now.
This blog has long been interested in Iran, especially in its younger generation so open to the West. Part of it is that I've long believed that Iran was much more likely to become a democracy than its neighboring Arab states - and that this might be the key to unwinding the clash of civilizations that was hurtling us toward apocalyptic scenarios. Part of it is that being immersed in online media, I'm perhaps more aware of the vibrant debate, evolving culture and amazing passion of Iran's Millennials. So this day is a moment of great hope and joy for those of us who have been waiting for it and knowing that one day, it would come. But many Americans have, sadly, been left unaware of this phenomenon - and a glance at the cable news of the weekend helps explain why.
So you don't have anything else to say about it other than commenting about how no one's commenting here?
If you want to talk about a topic, don't be all tsk-tsk that someone hasn't already started a topic or that more people aren't commenting.
He's also done a good job of pointing out the neocon reaction to all of this, and most of it has been quite shocking even for them.
We shoulda bombed Iran when they all wanted to, that would have been much better than the people of Iran taking matters into their own hands like this.
Iran on a bad day is better than the corrupt Middle Eastern kleptocracies that the West finances. The OP asks why there has been little interest in the fallout from the Iranian elections, I would ask why have there been no threads on Dubai's slave labour practices?
Melon, surely Andrew Sullivan is the very epitome of the mainstream media. He writes for the Murdoch press. How much more mainstream can you get?
So you don't have anything else to say about it other than commenting about how no one's commenting here?
If you want to talk about a topic, don't be all tsk-tsk that someone hasn't already started a topic or that more people aren't commenting.
This website isn't the end-all, be-all of web discussion or some indicator of how much people care about it.
Start the topic yourself and continue it.
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Apples and oranges. Are there any popular revolts occurring presently in any of these kleptocracies? Certainly, there are a lot of long-simmering issues in the world, but why must that imply implicit support? The sheer fact is that it often takes "explosive" developments to put an old issue back to the forefront. I guess we can call that a flaw of human nature.
From what I've read, Sullivan speaks his own mind, not that of his corporate benefactors. Sullivan is a gay conservative, who has, as of late, become rather pointedly anti-Republican and even became an Obama supporter. Likewise, presuming he writes for the "Murdoch press," the overlords must not oversee him too tightly, as he roundly criticized FOX News' coverage (or lack thereof) of Iran.
But even at that, looking at the ownership of "The Atlantic," whom he works for and who hosts his blog, they appear to be independently owned--not owned by Murdoch.
No, just a drive-by mini-rant.
Sullivan is a reformed neocon to an extent, but now returning, in my view, to moderate liberalism, not true conservatism. True believing conservatives wouldn't advocate support for Obama, they would go for a third party candidate if they disliked the two main party candidates. Still, a liberal is better than a neocon in my book.
If Justin Raimondo is what one would call a "true conservative," then I guess we're all raving neocon lefties then.
Thankfully, most people "left" of Raimondo and Attila the Hun are more nuanced than that--at least the ones of non-demagogic motives.