[PEN-L:1851] Re: The "internationalists" vs us narrow-minded "nationalists"

[dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx (Doug Henwood)]

At 4:42 AM 12/11/95, Trond Andresen wrote:

>thank God that "PC" still only means Personal Computer in Norway. We
>have largely been spared of that completely unproductive and demagogic
>expression, "political correctness". I won't ever use that trick in
>debates. It was invented by the right. let them have it for themselves,
>it goes to show the quality of their way of debating.

Actually I thought PC was coined by leftists in a bit of ironic
self-mockery. On the one hand, its use is a stupid right-wing debating
trick now, but on the other hand, Trond, you should see some of the drivel
that emerges from the US left - the label is well-deserved in those cases.

On the bigger issue of inter/nationalism, I wonder what Norway and Canada
would be like if there were no MNCs and imperialist monsters like the UK
and US around, the countries that created and maintain the modern global
division of spoils. I sometimes think that people in these countries want
it both ways - First World incomes, but without the moral stigma that comes
with being a global bully.

Doug

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