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November 25, 2011 5:15 PM Subscribe
Naomi Klein and Michael Moore (among others) discuss the Occupy movement (many times previously) on Democracy Now.
This post was deleted for the following reason: I totally appreciate you're trying to provide some context, but you've basically buried the actual meat in a pile of wikipedia pages and mefi site searches here in a way that is pretty distracting. Maybe a do-over that's a little clearer about the lede or just add this to one of the open OWS threads. -- cortex
Moore has a net worth of $50 million, putting him firmly in the "1%". I'm sure I just sneezed and missed the bit where donated all this to the poor during the interview.
posted by joannemullen at 5:39 PM on November 25, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by joannemullen at 5:39 PM on November 25, 2011 [2 favorites]
I think there's more filler in this post than Taco Bell taco meat.
posted by scalefree at 5:40 PM on November 25, 2011
posted by scalefree at 5:40 PM on November 25, 2011
Moore has a net worth of $50 million, putting him firmly in the "1%". I'm sure I just sneezed and missed the bit where donated all this to the poor during the interview.
Yeah, and Al Gore has a big house!
posted by gerryblog at 5:42 PM on November 25, 2011 [2 favorites]
Yeah, and Al Gore has a big house!
posted by gerryblog at 5:42 PM on November 25, 2011 [2 favorites]
The OccupySF livestream is more interesting right now.
posting in a deletion-bound thread, wheee
posted by finite at 5:43 PM on November 25, 2011
posting in a deletion-bound thread, wheee
posted by finite at 5:43 PM on November 25, 2011
Moore has a net worth of $50 million, putting him firmly in the "1%". I'm sure I just sneezed and missed the bit where donated all this to the poor during the interview.
I still can't understand why if someone who is rich doesn't give away their money to the poor (which, by the way $50 million would barely scratch the surface of), they can't criticize the system.
posted by birdhaus at 5:44 PM on November 25, 2011
I still can't understand why if someone who is rich doesn't give away their money to the poor (which, by the way $50 million would barely scratch the surface of), they can't criticize the system.
posted by birdhaus at 5:44 PM on November 25, 2011
Moore has a net worth of $50 million, putting him firmly in the "1%". I'm sure I just sneezed and missed the bit where donated all this to the poor during the interview.
*yawn*
I award you 1 point out of 10, try harder.
posted by empath at 5:48 PM on November 25, 2011 [1 favorite]
*yawn*
I award you 1 point out of 10, try harder.
posted by empath at 5:48 PM on November 25, 2011 [1 favorite]
They can criticize it all they want, but the fact that they are that rich will make us a) question their sincerity and b) think of them as just one more rich person telling us what to think.
Does this make any of their arguments inaccurate, not neccessarily, but it's something to think about, or are we only supposed to apply critical thinking sometimes?
posted by jonmc at 5:48 PM on November 25, 2011
Does this make any of their arguments inaccurate, not neccessarily, but it's something to think about, or are we only supposed to apply critical thinking sometimes?
posted by jonmc at 5:48 PM on November 25, 2011
That's not how critical thinking works.
posted by empath at 5:51 PM on November 25, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by empath at 5:51 PM on November 25, 2011 [1 favorite]
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"Well, who organized this? Who organized this movement?" I said, "Well, actually, Goldman Sachs organized it. Citibank organized it. BP organized it. They did—they did the organization." - Michael Moore.
I never really thought of it that way, but . . .
posted by the man of twists and turns at 5:20 PM on November 25, 2011 [2 favorites]