"Blaming victims for having insufficiently perfect leaders is standard fare for apologists of predation."
Excellent quote. Thank you, Gar. On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Gar Lipow <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Doug Henwood <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> > On Jul 4, 2015, at 8:11 AM, Paul Zarembka <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Of course we are hearing how bad the bankers are. But the Syriza >> leadership should have known that from the get-go and acted accordingly. >> >> Are you fucking kidding? Do you really think that Varoufakis didn't know >> this years ago? >> > > Nobody is above criticism. But it does not hurt to remember the principle > stated well in an excellent article on the Greek crisis: "Blaming victims > for having insufficiently perfect leaders is standard fare for apologists > of predation." You can read the whole thing here: (http://t.co/LTpkw6oEm7 > ) . Probably has nothing that people who have been paying careful attention > do not know. But for anyone who needs ot catch up, I don't think you could > do better than (http://t.co/LTpkw6oEm7 ) , This Forbes article is > shorter and not bad. http://onforb.es/1C8D87wm . The Forbes is good > not only for comparative brevity but for citing a respectedr business > source. (Some of the business press has been surprisingly good on this, as > I've long found they often are.) But the first link is much better. > >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >> > > > > -- > Facebook: Gar Lipow Twitter: GarLipow > Solving the Climate Crisis web page: SolvingTheClimateCrisis.com > Grist Blog: http://grist.org/author/gar-lipow/ > Online technical reference: http://www.nohairshirts.com > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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