[thechat] omigod, not again

Erika Meyer emeyer at lclark.edu
Mon Feb 3 18:06:00 CST 2003


http://www.msnbc.com/news/859191.asp?0cl=cR&cp1=1
MSNBC on Korean forced labor camps

What I can't figure out is why there is not a massive international outcry.
60 Minutes did a news story on this last night; made me sick, broke my heart.

That we can allow it, even support it with our dollars...
that we can turn our heads.

Lives matter when we have infused them with symbolic value.
Otherwise...

E

>The Indian news channels can't stop talking about the fact that one of them
>astronauts, Kalpana Chawla, was Indian-born. (As if the other lives didn't
>matter.)
>
>Madhu
>
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