I see the dynamic in a similar way. However, I think it'd be more accurate to say that Bush is being hoisted on his own petard by the xenophobia, jingoism, and paranoia that he's been preaching for the last six years...
Yeah, you may well be right, although Bush's gestures towards not being racist strike me more as ass-covering than anything else. It does feel to me like he's actively taken advantage of the difficulties the US public has in distinguishing between Islamic and Arabic, let alone between extremism and not.
We need a word like racism that instead refers to religion. That would be a more accurate charge.
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Date: 2006-03-13 12:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-13 12:17 am (UTC)Yeah, you may well be right, although Bush's gestures towards not being racist strike me more as ass-covering than anything else. It does feel to me like he's actively taken advantage of the difficulties the US public has in distinguishing between Islamic and Arabic, let alone between extremism and not.
We need a word like racism that instead refers to religion. That would be a more accurate charge.
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Date: 2006-03-13 02:37 am (UTC)no subject
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