Thursday, February 09, 2006
Sold their Soul
I keep returning to author Hans Magnus Enzensberger's assertion that the world is becoming quintessentially anti-social. Not just uncaring right-wing governments, hate groups, and malignant corporations, but mainstream religious institutions and liberal NGOs have also copped an attitude of neglectful self-interest.
To take just one example among the many, LULAC was recently observed in Texas turning out in solidarity with day laborers scapegoated by Minuteman vigilantes. Score one for LULAC.
But then LULAC also turns out to be a supporter of the Pentagon's fraudulent recruiting campaign that targets poor Latino immigrants for cannon fodder in America's horrid colonization of Iraq. LULAC back to zero.
I guess my instincts were right when I saw the upscale expensive signs and t-shirts LULAC sported in their moral theatrics in East Texas: these are self-aggrandizing middle-class Latinos, not field workers--and like other minorities who've sold their soul to advance economically, they regularly sell out their less fortunate own.
Must be Democrats.
To take just one example among the many, LULAC was recently observed in Texas turning out in solidarity with day laborers scapegoated by Minuteman vigilantes. Score one for LULAC.
But then LULAC also turns out to be a supporter of the Pentagon's fraudulent recruiting campaign that targets poor Latino immigrants for cannon fodder in America's horrid colonization of Iraq. LULAC back to zero.
I guess my instincts were right when I saw the upscale expensive signs and t-shirts LULAC sported in their moral theatrics in East Texas: these are self-aggrandizing middle-class Latinos, not field workers--and like other minorities who've sold their soul to advance economically, they regularly sell out their less fortunate own.
Must be Democrats.
