[Peace-discuss] a friend: Haiti's problem is overpopulation

[C. G. Estabrook]

"A dinner party is not the revolution."

(That's what a friend of mine calls "quoting from memory.")

I would guess that your friends, who probably consider themselves well-informed, 
have not in fact read Chomsky or Zinn. But the manufacture of consent in America 
requires a certain repressive tolerance. The information is there if you want to 
look for it.  --CGE


John W. wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:kmedina67 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> At a dinner party last week, we were briefly discussing Haiti.
> 
> A friend said that Haiti's poverty problem is due to overpopulation, that
> their Catholicism kept them from using birth control, and that if they used
> birth control it would be the biggest help to solving their poverty problem.
> 
> How terribly uninformed can people be? Even MY FRIENDS are saying things like
> this. I was shocked.
> 
> For starters, as far as I know, Haiti is not a Catholic country. Voodoo and
> Protestantism seem more prevalent than Catholicism. For instance, United
> Methodists have a mission in Haiti and they are just one among hundreds
> probably.
> 
> How do YOU deal with people like this?
> 
> -- karen medina
> 
> 
> Hmmm....
> 
> Quote Noam Chomsky to 'em?
> 
> Refer 'em to Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States"?
> 
> Avoid bourgeois dinner parties?  ;-)
> 

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