We Have Engineered the Rage of the Deluded

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37. Small point taken

I read the piece from kpete's post on DU, who had used the line as the title.

Hedges makes a point of blaming Charlie Hebdo for their own homicides. He writes, "The cartoons of the Prophet in the Paris-based satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo are offensive and juvenile. None of them are funny. And they expose a grotesque double standard when it comes to Muslims."

Hedges' last paragraph includes this sentence, "As the resources of the world diminish, especially with the onslaught of climate change, the message we send to the unfortunate of the earth is stark and unequivocal: We have everything and if you try to take anything away from us we will kill you.", the we to which he refers is everyone in the west, not just "the capitalist-imperialist forces of the West and their labor aristocracies and bourgeois oligarchies" as you so naively put it. It is obvious that he is placing the blame of the attacks on the victims.

The last sentence of your previous post suggests projection on your part, rather than any reluctance on my part to change my mind.