Friday, February 16, 2007

Maybe Us...

What is it about Dinesh D'Souza that drives ordinarily conservative folks to start coming up with mitigating facts in favor of American popular culture/entertainment industry/media?


Oh, by the way, if we're talking about who is exporting what to whom, lets also look at the way that the Saudi-funded variant of Islam has, in the space of three decades, corrupted, displaced or destroyed the different Islams that had evolved over centuries in countries such as Indonesia. That's what I call cultural imperialism.

Finally (for now), can we just agree that, whatever its many faults, disgraces and worse, America's culture does not deserve the adjective "depraved"? It's not, and it's silly to say that it is.
No what is silly is to act as if cultural depravity is some sort of zero sum game. Suicide bombing is evil, OK but does that mitigate everything from Paris Hilton to Girls Gone Wild to Porn?
Do Islamic crimes wash us clean?

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