Friday, January 28, 2011
The Weathermen Documentary
In the documentary, there was a short piece of an official at a press conference who stated that it was "sick" for people to use violence in order to try to change political and social reform, to get the government to change. Did anyone else sense the hypocrisy? The parallelism in his statement to U.S. involvement in Vietnam? What are your opinions on what he had to say?
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I think that of course opposition to The Weather Underground would see it as hypocrisy but certainly the people who acted with such violence certainly didn't think that it was hypocrisy. Rather, the parallelism was used in their defense, for how can you combat violence with non-violence? What, with Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination? Not saying I personally agree with their viewpoint but I can see why they turned to violence as their answer to "Bring the War Home."
ReplyDeleteThis statement absolutely is hypocrisy. While violence is an unfortunate occurrence, it is a tool that is commonly used to spur change or express disagreement. There are, of course, times when it is appropriate and times where it is not. This statement technically allows one to conclude that the entire government is sick. But if the entire government is sick, how can one go about changing it without falling into that trap themselves. Revolutions are generally not peaceful, and this statement would categorize those that take action against the sick government as sick themselves. This statement had no place in an official's public statement and was poorly worded. But the message was a genuine one, condemning the use of violence
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