[Peace-discuss] UC Berkeley uprising - George Lakoff

[David Green]

http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/23233

Since Lakoff was amicably (no pun intended) interviewed recently on Democracy Now, it's important to see where he's coming from:

Particularly egregious in this respect was Democratic Party "framing" strategist and self-styled movement guru George Lakoff. Visibly angered by the occupiers' refusal to leave Wheeler voluntarily (without any of their demands having been met, of course), Lakoff seized the megaphone to spew the morally bankrupt argument that since the students knew they would be met with police violence, they would themselves be responsible for creating that violence if they chose to remain. No more repulsive a phrase was uttered that day. And were this not sufficient, Lakoff was even heard lying repeatedly to the occupiers, insisting that there had been no police violence, no rubber bullets, and no injuries outside the building, all in an effort to manipulate those inside into abandoning the occupation.
 
DG


      
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