Re: [Marxism] Lost In Translation: Ahmadinejad And The Media

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dbachmozart@xxxxxxx wrote:
>  
> 
> First I want to make some remarks about that now world-famous statement of  
> President Ahmadinejad at Columbia: âWe do not have homosexuals in Iran of 
> the  
> kind you have in your country.â The American media conveniently ignored the 
>  
> second, and crucial, part of his sentence as something redundant. 
> <_http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18471.htm_ 
> (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18471.htm) >

 From the article:

"By contrast, homosexuality is a non-issue in Iran and is considered an 
uncommon perversion (except as an occasional topic of jokes about a 
certain town)."

Sounds like the USA in 1954.

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