re: #6 War On Music

1. Why would I want to “go further”? I not interested in the high school popularity contest mentality of the internet.

I am not dismissing anything. Rather I think there needs to be a deeper analysis of what she is saying rather then accepting it at face value. Despite her claims to be ‘apolitical’, her mission is a very political mission, and as such cannot be separated out from the rest of the systemic issues at hand, particularly attempts to alienate the Palestinian national minority (even if one disagrees with what they say) .

researchok: You want to talk ‘pivot and attack’, why does the interviewee talk so much about how terrible Saudi Arabia is when asked about the issues of discrimination facing Israeli Palestinians? Is there some sort of magical ‘hierarchy of oppression’ which lets Israel off the hook so long as the Saudis are doing something terrible (good thing the Saudis have China, China has North Korea….)

Look who thinks he’s an intellectual.