To the thread. Paul has it all wrong, once again.
He's worried that FADG is filled with anti-American posters. Wrong. Two points.
First, about tokenism and visual representation. In my field, sociology, there is an often remarked upon phenomena. When a token element in a population, say a group of women in a large population of men, let's say women are 5%, doubles, goes to something like 10%, men see it as a much larger event. The men don't see 10%, they see a great many more women, tend to think of themselves as "overwhelmed" by women, and become defensive.
Second, the stuff I read last night was not so much anti-American, whatever that means, as critical of the foreign policy of the Bush administration. That's definitely not anti-American. Were the Republican Party's criticisms of the Clinton administration's foreign policy moves in Kosovo, Bosnia, Haiti, and others, anti-American? I think not. It's precisely like saying that criticism of the Sharon government's actions are anti-semitic. |
