Comments on: With All This Talk Of Change… http://deanesmay.com/2009/01/20/with-all-this-talk-of-change/ Defending the liberal tradition in history, science, and philosophy. Wed, 23 May 2012 12:36:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dean Esmay http://deanesmay.com/2009/01/20/with-all-this-talk-of-change/#comment-167719 Dean Esmay Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:06:58 +0000 http://deanesmay.com/2009/01/20/with-all-this-talk-of-change/#comment-167719 Heh. Yeah. Comforting. :-) Heh. Yeah. Comforting. :-)

]]> By: Kevin D. http://deanesmay.com/2009/01/20/with-all-this-talk-of-change/#comment-167709 Kevin D. Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:03:49 +0000 http://deanesmay.com/2009/01/20/with-all-this-talk-of-change/#comment-167709 Amusing indeed.  Like I said, some things never change.  It's almost comforting. Amusing indeed.  Like I said, some things never change.  It’s almost comforting.

]]> By: Dean Esmay http://deanesmay.com/2009/01/20/with-all-this-talk-of-change/#comment-167702 Dean Esmay Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:30:12 +0000 http://deanesmay.com/2009/01/20/with-all-this-talk-of-change/#comment-167702 Arrgh. I like Michelle, but she falls for the same thing too many other people (left, right, or center) fall into. A) Iran is not an Arab country and never has been. They don't speak Arabic, and they aren't ethnically or racially Arab either. B) Iran is a totalitarian theocracy, and the only protests allowed are those approved by the government--and their government sometimes even coerces people to attend these rallies. I get why she's snarking on this, but a little more accuracy would have made the point better. The truth is that the people in Iran are not free, and you thus cannot trust that any images of Iran you see are not orchestrated by the government. They almost always are. So, the Iranian regime still hates us and wants to stick it to the new President. It IS sadly amusing. Arrgh. I like Michelle, but she falls for the same thing too many other people (left, right, or center) fall into.

A) Iran is not an Arab country and never has been. They don’t speak Arabic, and they aren’t ethnically or racially Arab either.

B) Iran is a totalitarian theocracy, and the only protests allowed are those approved by the government–and their government sometimes even coerces people to attend these rallies.

I get why she’s snarking on this, but a little more accuracy would have made the point better. The truth is that the people in Iran are not free, and you thus cannot trust that any images of Iran you see are not orchestrated by the government. They almost always are.

So, the Iranian regime still hates us and wants to stick it to the new President. It IS sadly amusing.

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