Alice Walker was disinvited to the Bay Area Book Festival after Zionist groups threatened to carry out protests. The public and presenters are complicit in her blacklisting if they attend.
This has added another reason to my long list of why I am so fed up with everything that is considered "politically correct". How did "the left" come to embrace and openly endorse censorship to such an extent? How do actions like these reflect the true spirit of leftism? We are reaching a point where the intelligent are being silenced to protect and appease the fools. How far is this going to go? Who is next?
This is hard to listen to. Would we let a fanatical supporter of Hitler take our stage? Hitler is useful to use to take things to an extreme to examine them. Icke in my book is a raving lunatic, so where is the line? There's no definitive answer to that but it is stimulation to think deeply.
I love everything Hedges says, even the things I disagree with. As a woman, I can’t see the bible as a great religious text. What is great about the maligning of women as inherently evil or the impetus by god to commit genocide for land?
That aside, banning Alice Walker from a book fest is like banning Hemingway from such or Shakespeare from the Edinburgh fringe. Her work is a bedrock of American fiction. It’s a travesty and a tragedy.
Thank you again Chris Hedges & Eunice Wong for describing some elements of the integrated oligarch command & control of human society, which plagues all humanity today with Cancel-culture & Censorship. I come from mixed Jewish & Christian family, which are historically joined as trickledown agents in submission to oligarchy.
'MONEY' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'MEMORY')
Most of us are unaware during our lifetimes of this invisible minority multinational share-holder control over money issuing US-Federal-Reserve, Bank-of-England & Bank-of-International-Settlements with empire's fake metal-coin 'money'. False central amnesia-producing, oligarch 'money' control of western economy & society, including the ownership of our means of livelihood production & our Right to express ourselves among our fellows, societies & world. Zionism's European Ashkenazi invasion of Semite Palestine was possible only through Zionism's privileged favouritism to the heart of oligarchy's money issue for expensive funding, planned organization, arms & munitions. Thank you Alice Walker for standing up for all people including oppressors who are deeply self-enslaved without cultural memory for all humanity's diverse livelihood contributors.
FREE SPEECH IS RECIPROCAL (goes both ways) NOT LINEAR (not just one way outwards from a person or entity). Has the important (1st Amendment) issue of Free-Speech been degraded because of a lack of reciprocal responsibility on the part of advocates? Did US Founders as oligarch supported colonial, rich, racist, sexist, exclusive thinkers, propose Free-Speech in a half-baked way, which has historically failed all people & is continually failing in our time?
DIALOGUE & ACTION
Before violent 'exogenous' (Latin 'other-steal-generated') colonization, all humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') ancestors for many 10s of 1000s of years, employed reciprocal both-sided, equal-time, circle-witnessed & shared COUNCIL PROCESS for all issues, which require formal dialogue, dialectic-rights or 'debate' (French 'de' = 'undo' + 'bate' = 'the-fight'). Council is part of humanity's indigenous interdisciplinary CIRCLE-OF-LIFE practices to describe how ancient DIALOGUE is intricately linked to livelihood ACTION. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/home/indigenous-circle-of-life
When someone makes any statement, be it enlightening, intriguing, slanderous or rude, indigenous social-convention / Council Process required that; they be ready to engage friends & foes in formal equal-time dialogue (dialectic-exchange). ie Publishing Rights require reciprocal dialogue requirement to counter-balance unchecked slander, libel, defamation, derogation etc. It is far better to deal with public insults in public, where any such rude person can be publicly corrected, embarrassed or countered by the court of diverse public action & opinion, than to silence them into hidden nefarious irresponsible channels. When some of the rest of us call for Free-Speech online, on Twitter, on Social Media, in Politics, in Institutions, Business, in Multihome-Dwelling-Complexes, Municipalities etc, are we aware of the rich ancient cultural indigenous human dialectic Council-Process traditions, social-conventions & procedures? 'Both-sides-now' is a compilation of bare essential indigenous Council-Process requirements. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/structure/both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues
CENSORS AS INTELLECTUAL COWARDS
Who would not trust in posing their own truth, side-by-side reciprocally in dialogue with their perceived adversaries? Who would not trust in the strength of their own convictions & not desire to release the mental baggage of falsehoods through dialogue, dialectic rights & debate? Each of us only sees a small part of life's vast truth. Part of being the complementary parts of human collectivity is recognizing our own individual human myopia?
Mohandas Gandhi developed 'Satyagraha' (Hindi 'truth-search') based upon simultaneous inquiry with both parties in dispute or re-search asking, "What are your best intentions & how can we help you fulfill these?". Gandhi, "I can imagine a fully armed man to be at heart a coward. Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not cowardice. But true non-violence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness."
We need transparency in all levels of human solutions at home, school, media, business for all stakeholders. As Socrates proposed, dialectics (both-sided inquiry) should be the foundation of social & economic literacy both for collaborative-research & as necessity may arise for conflict-resolution
I want Alice to know that I stand with her. I fell in love with her story writing, when I read The Color Purple. I felt a kinship to her, even though we come from different backgrounds. I got to meet her at her book signing when she protested against the Palestinian oppressions on the Berkeley campus. I was so thrilled when I discovered she was friends with David Icke. She is a rock star! And she's right about David Icke, he is not evil. He was brilliant, brave, and will be missed. I love your braveness Alice Walker. You have my heart.
On despicable deeply corrupt Joe Biden – lying us into war while knowing with 100% certainty that WMD in Iraq is a bipartisan fraud (same as with Bucha and other crimes in Ukraine) – a major US war criminal
Walker is a fine writer but she has a long history of antisemitic speech & writing. Nonetheless as a “free speech absolutist” kike I don’t think she should be restricted from spewing her bigoted babble.
How is speaking out against an apartheid state anti-semitic? I have always been deeply uncomfortable with the conflation of support for ethnic jews with support for a zionist state and its oppression of another semitic ethnic group. They need not be intertwined. I do not support the right of people, any people, to oppress others, impose their religious worldview on others, or do the former based on the latter. If I were to write a book now, legitimizing my family’s right to own a plot of land, would it be enforceable a thousand plus years hence?
I love her prose and therefore am disappointed by her attitudes towards Is/Pal. The point you mentioned is the only or least of her antisemitic tropes. There isn’t enough time or space it all here. What you or I think is of ZERO significance to the issue so let’s find other windmills at which to tilt and both go on with our lives while the planet is still habitable.
This has added another reason to my long list of why I am so fed up with everything that is considered "politically correct". How did "the left" come to embrace and openly endorse censorship to such an extent? How do actions like these reflect the true spirit of leftism? We are reaching a point where the intelligent are being silenced to protect and appease the fools. How far is this going to go? Who is next?
Thought police is right. Madness. It’s the inquisition all over again.
21st Century Nazi Book Burning.
This is hard to listen to. Would we let a fanatical supporter of Hitler take our stage? Hitler is useful to use to take things to an extreme to examine them. Icke in my book is a raving lunatic, so where is the line? There's no definitive answer to that but it is stimulation to think deeply.
I love everything Hedges says, even the things I disagree with. As a woman, I can’t see the bible as a great religious text. What is great about the maligning of women as inherently evil or the impetus by god to commit genocide for land?
That aside, banning Alice Walker from a book fest is like banning Hemingway from such or Shakespeare from the Edinburgh fringe. Her work is a bedrock of American fiction. It’s a travesty and a tragedy.
Thank you again Chris Hedges & Eunice Wong for describing some elements of the integrated oligarch command & control of human society, which plagues all humanity today with Cancel-culture & Censorship. I come from mixed Jewish & Christian family, which are historically joined as trickledown agents in submission to oligarchy.
'MONEY' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'MEMORY')
Most of us are unaware during our lifetimes of this invisible minority multinational share-holder control over money issuing US-Federal-Reserve, Bank-of-England & Bank-of-International-Settlements with empire's fake metal-coin 'money'. False central amnesia-producing, oligarch 'money' control of western economy & society, including the ownership of our means of livelihood production & our Right to express ourselves among our fellows, societies & world. Zionism's European Ashkenazi invasion of Semite Palestine was possible only through Zionism's privileged favouritism to the heart of oligarchy's money issue for expensive funding, planned organization, arms & munitions. Thank you Alice Walker for standing up for all people including oppressors who are deeply self-enslaved without cultural memory for all humanity's diverse livelihood contributors.
FREE SPEECH IS RECIPROCAL (goes both ways) NOT LINEAR (not just one way outwards from a person or entity). Has the important (1st Amendment) issue of Free-Speech been degraded because of a lack of reciprocal responsibility on the part of advocates? Did US Founders as oligarch supported colonial, rich, racist, sexist, exclusive thinkers, propose Free-Speech in a half-baked way, which has historically failed all people & is continually failing in our time?
DIALOGUE & ACTION
Before violent 'exogenous' (Latin 'other-steal-generated') colonization, all humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') ancestors for many 10s of 1000s of years, employed reciprocal both-sided, equal-time, circle-witnessed & shared COUNCIL PROCESS for all issues, which require formal dialogue, dialectic-rights or 'debate' (French 'de' = 'undo' + 'bate' = 'the-fight'). Council is part of humanity's indigenous interdisciplinary CIRCLE-OF-LIFE practices to describe how ancient DIALOGUE is intricately linked to livelihood ACTION. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/home/indigenous-circle-of-life
When someone makes any statement, be it enlightening, intriguing, slanderous or rude, indigenous social-convention / Council Process required that; they be ready to engage friends & foes in formal equal-time dialogue (dialectic-exchange). ie Publishing Rights require reciprocal dialogue requirement to counter-balance unchecked slander, libel, defamation, derogation etc. It is far better to deal with public insults in public, where any such rude person can be publicly corrected, embarrassed or countered by the court of diverse public action & opinion, than to silence them into hidden nefarious irresponsible channels. When some of the rest of us call for Free-Speech online, on Twitter, on Social Media, in Politics, in Institutions, Business, in Multihome-Dwelling-Complexes, Municipalities etc, are we aware of the rich ancient cultural indigenous human dialectic Council-Process traditions, social-conventions & procedures? 'Both-sides-now' is a compilation of bare essential indigenous Council-Process requirements. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/structure/both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues
CENSORS AS INTELLECTUAL COWARDS
Who would not trust in posing their own truth, side-by-side reciprocally in dialogue with their perceived adversaries? Who would not trust in the strength of their own convictions & not desire to release the mental baggage of falsehoods through dialogue, dialectic rights & debate? Each of us only sees a small part of life's vast truth. Part of being the complementary parts of human collectivity is recognizing our own individual human myopia?
Mohandas Gandhi developed 'Satyagraha' (Hindi 'truth-search') based upon simultaneous inquiry with both parties in dispute or re-search asking, "What are your best intentions & how can we help you fulfill these?". Gandhi, "I can imagine a fully armed man to be at heart a coward. Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not cowardice. But true non-violence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness."
We need transparency in all levels of human solutions at home, school, media, business for all stakeholders. As Socrates proposed, dialectics (both-sided inquiry) should be the foundation of social & economic literacy both for collaborative-research & as necessity may arise for conflict-resolution
I want Alice to know that I stand with her. I fell in love with her story writing, when I read The Color Purple. I felt a kinship to her, even though we come from different backgrounds. I got to meet her at her book signing when she protested against the Palestinian oppressions on the Berkeley campus. I was so thrilled when I discovered she was friends with David Icke. She is a rock star! And she's right about David Icke, he is not evil. He was brilliant, brave, and will be missed. I love your braveness Alice Walker. You have my heart.
On despicable deeply corrupt Joe Biden – lying us into war while knowing with 100% certainty that WMD in Iraq is a bipartisan fraud (same as with Bucha and other crimes in Ukraine) – a major US war criminal
https://youtu.be/ecH1SI9ufr8
Chris do you have a place to leave comments for you? I have some issues I'd like to have you consider addressing and commenting on. Thank you.
Walker is a fine writer but she has a long history of antisemitic speech & writing. Nonetheless as a “free speech absolutist” kike I don’t think she should be restricted from spewing her bigoted babble.
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And you are obviously a bigot with that post. You perpetuate the anti-semitism which you seen to be against by name-calling and finger pointing.
If your opinion were of any interest to me I might reply. It’s not.
How is speaking out against an apartheid state anti-semitic? I have always been deeply uncomfortable with the conflation of support for ethnic jews with support for a zionist state and its oppression of another semitic ethnic group. They need not be intertwined. I do not support the right of people, any people, to oppress others, impose their religious worldview on others, or do the former based on the latter. If I were to write a book now, legitimizing my family’s right to own a plot of land, would it be enforceable a thousand plus years hence?
I love her prose and therefore am disappointed by her attitudes towards Is/Pal. The point you mentioned is the only or least of her antisemitic tropes. There isn’t enough time or space it all here. What you or I think is of ZERO significance to the issue so let’s find other windmills at which to tilt and both go on with our lives while the planet is still habitable.
Then we all must have it.