Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Nicholas Kristof: Egomaniacal Ass-Kisser of Imperialists and Fascists
speakingcorpse writes:
There's nothing else to say about this fool who thinks he's the only person in the world who cares about the sex trade; who portrays himself as the heroic savior of foreign brown girls; who refuses to acknowledge that brown people might themselves have some interest in stopping the sex trade; who ignores the pleas of numerous American feminist organizations to publicize their work on the sex trade, because such publicity would interfere with his own efforts to cast himself as an iconoclast who stands above all traditional forms of political "partisanship," and would interfere also with his efforts to pander to maniacal Christ-lickers who, according to Kristof, care more about women than American feminists (those self-indulgent and amoral advocates of sex, birth-control, abortion, and lesbianism).
If only liberals and feminists could get over themselves and their self-righteous efforts to impose their hedonistic moral bankruptcy on the rest of our pious and good-hearted nation! Does Kristof really believe this garbage? No. But at least he isn't one of those benighted LIBERALS, who started off wanting to save the world and have now gotten bogged down in the depravity let loose by the "anything-goes" 1960's! (How different Kristof is from Katha Pollitt, who, I think, is now my favorite political writer.)
posted by Blicero : 2/17/2004 10:18:00 PM
There's nothing else to say about this fool who thinks he's the only person in the world who cares about the sex trade; who portrays himself as the heroic savior of foreign brown girls; who refuses to acknowledge that brown people might themselves have some interest in stopping the sex trade; who ignores the pleas of numerous American feminist organizations to publicize their work on the sex trade, because such publicity would interfere with his own efforts to cast himself as an iconoclast who stands above all traditional forms of political "partisanship," and would interfere also with his efforts to pander to maniacal Christ-lickers who, according to Kristof, care more about women than American feminists (those self-indulgent and amoral advocates of sex, birth-control, abortion, and lesbianism).
If only liberals and feminists could get over themselves and their self-righteous efforts to impose their hedonistic moral bankruptcy on the rest of our pious and good-hearted nation! Does Kristof really believe this garbage? No. But at least he isn't one of those benighted LIBERALS, who started off wanting to save the world and have now gotten bogged down in the depravity let loose by the "anything-goes" 1960's! (How different Kristof is from Katha Pollitt, who, I think, is now my favorite political writer.)
Kristof to the Rescue?Full story.
by Katha Pollitt
You'd think he'd learn. But no. Now Kristof is complaining that American women's groups such as NOW and Feminist Majority don't care about sexual slavery and the trafficking of women and children for commercial sex. In a series of columns, he describes his efforts to "buy the freedom" of two Cambodian teenage prostitutes living in a sleazy brothel in Poipet and to get them home to their families. Evangelical Christians, he argues, care about girls like these; feminists are too busy "saving Title IX and electing more women to the Senate," he observed in a Times online forum.
posted by Blicero : 2/17/2004 10:18:00 PM
