[Peace-discuss] My response to Dan Corkery's column

[David Green]

This comment was posted on the News-Gazette website:
The News-Gazette has been willing to publish some views that genuinely challenge the corporate establishment from "outside the limits of allowable debate," in the words of Noam Chomsky. Those views have been predominately those of local readers. Rarely does the N-G publish a nationally or internationally known leftist. The "new" approach maintains the deceptive "left-right" (Dem-Repub; "liberal"-"conservative") framework referred to by Corkery, which generally assumes corporate/capitalist perspectives, including those that are consistent with a militaristic foreign policy and American (and Israeli) exceptionalism. Sundiata Cha-Jua is a start, and an exception to the rule. But the rule remains. The point is to realize that "left-right" continues to generally exclude truthful anti-capitalist perspectives from the left (and some from the antiwar libertarian right) that are defined by default as "extreme." Readers will have to look to websites such as Counterpunch and Black Agenda Report for such perspectives as they exist in a more confident and expansive framework and as a genuine basis for organizing. Meanwhile, it should be emphasized that the N-G continues to be a racist and 1% newspaper in its general editorial approaches, especially in relation to "crime reporting." That will remain the case even if some who are not "middle-aged white males" are included; that is, we will need more than identity politics, which is part of the problem, not the solution.
http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/2015-09-13/dan-corkery-listening-new-voices.html#comment-549291
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