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Hmm. On racism and media.
So I ran across this... http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/01/21/chavez.ap/index.html
In it, Pres. Chavez of Venezuela apparently said "Go to hell, gringos!" in reference to the US in a radio address.
Okay. So he's unhappy, and he even probably has good reason to be.
So where's the outcry that would happen if a US politician said "Go to hell, wetbacks!" in reference to Mexico or any other Latin American state?
In case you couldn't notice, I'm not one that ascribes to the (to me, idiotic) idea that only whites can be racist, and only men can be sexist. Racism and sexism are endemic across races and genders, IMO, and equally stupid and moronic in whatever form they pop up.
Now, one could argue that gringo hasn't the punch that other racist names might have... but I'm not so sure, having grown up in a Hispanic-Anglo racially tense area. Gringo was spat with the same venom as wetback, in my personal experience, which makes this just...
*shakes head*
Idiots, idiots, everywhere, and not a brain to think.
In it, Pres. Chavez of Venezuela apparently said "Go to hell, gringos!" in reference to the US in a radio address.
Okay. So he's unhappy, and he even probably has good reason to be.
So where's the outcry that would happen if a US politician said "Go to hell, wetbacks!" in reference to Mexico or any other Latin American state?
In case you couldn't notice, I'm not one that ascribes to the (to me, idiotic) idea that only whites can be racist, and only men can be sexist. Racism and sexism are endemic across races and genders, IMO, and equally stupid and moronic in whatever form they pop up.
Now, one could argue that gringo hasn't the punch that other racist names might have... but I'm not so sure, having grown up in a Hispanic-Anglo racially tense area. Gringo was spat with the same venom as wetback, in my personal experience, which makes this just...
*shakes head*
Idiots, idiots, everywhere, and not a brain to think.
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First, a lot of the oil price run up was driven by specualtion, not fundamentals. Generally inventory levels track price pretty well, and inventory levels last summer were suggesting $30 a barrel oil, it was pure bubblism that drove prices to the $70s.
Second, as the decline in oil demand shows, the high prices *did* have an effect on behavior. Since a lot of the thing which consume oil are investments that ametorize over years (like cars, power plants, etc) that demand reducion effect will propogate forward.