July 13, 2005

Boxer Rebellion

Have you seen We'reNotAfraid.com? It’s a funny, inspiring website where people all over the world can submit messages and photographs expressing their solidarity with the victims of the London terrorist attack, and reiterating that we’re, indeed, not afraid of the terrorists’ pathetic efforts.

Or, if you’re New York Times writer Sarah Boxer, this spontaneous outpouring of support and solidarity is actually “a brutish flaunting of wealth and leisure,” in which posters sharing photos of their cars and homes have turned the site into “a place where the haves of the world can show that they're not afraid of the have-nots.”

Boxer’s piece is a gross distortion and misunderstanding of history and current events to assume that the War on Terror is somehow really about class conflict, as though multi-millionaire Osama Bin Laden were some sort of Che Guevara figure, and not the fascist that he is. It’s a disgustingly wrongheaded, almost Marxist analysis, the sort of thing I’d expect from Naomi Klein in the Nation, not in the Times.

Jeff Jarvis, who has clashed with Boxer before when she slandered his friends at Iraq the Model as CIA spies, is all over it as well.

Posted by Stephen Silver at July 13, 2005 12:16 AM
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