03-03-2004, 06:26 PM | #1 |
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Stupid White Men
I noticed that there are a lot of American members in the Moot. What do you think about this book?
Is this all real? Ist this all necessary? Or is this a joke? |
03-04-2004, 10:38 AM | #2 |
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never heard of it... can you give a summary or link?
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03-04-2004, 11:16 AM | #3 |
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it is a book done by michael moore, he was the director of bowling for columbine. i cant really say if it was neccessary since it is a book. he also has a book called dude wheres my country
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03-04-2004, 05:49 PM | #4 | |
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Re: Stupid White Men
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Moore is an anti-Bush, anti-Republican, American writer and satirist. He made the film Bowling for Columbine. I've given up reading it because I find his style too annoying. |
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03-07-2004, 09:26 PM | #5 |
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Your opening question is hard to answer.
He is serious, but also facetious. As The Great Gaffer put it, he's a satirist. I haven't read it my self, but what I've heard form my liberal minded long winded friends it does express a lot of the disquiet and malcontent they personally feel about living in America. I think that it is necessary so far as you agree with him. (Very American answer, but still.) And as for "Is it real?" ...um...he, like any other writer, presents the facts from a certain point of view.
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03-08-2004, 11:56 AM | #6 |
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Thought that rang a bell....
Do an Entmoot search on Michael Moore, and you'll come up with a thread already covering this. Moderators??
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03-08-2004, 05:52 PM | #7 |
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The three questions at the opening of my thread are quoted from a very old Alice-Cooper-Song, who for me is (well, was at the time he wrote this song) also a satirist, of rock music of course. The song is called Luney Tune from the album School´s Out.(Ask your grandfather)
I like quoting songs and films and everything. Don´t take it too serious. So I register that Michael Moore is not very popular in the USA? Who is this Ralph Nader he always mentions? |
03-09-2004, 05:37 AM | #8 |
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Nader is a left wing environmentalist who stood for president in 2000 and took enough votes off Gore to let Bush win.
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03-09-2004, 10:51 AM | #9 | |
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Michael Moore is a satirist. He has proponents, like any person in the public eye with strong opinions. If you'd like to see him at his best, get ahold of a copy of the documentary "Roger and Me." It is a brilliant and scathing look at the automobile industry and how it effected Moore's hometown of Flint, Michigan (near my own hometown). It's an eerie foreshadowing of what many industries are continuing to do to their workers and the communities that gave them life. (This is happening in the community in which I live now). "Roger and Me" is an excellent film.
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03-31-2004, 04:07 PM | #10 |
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I think I am an environmentalist myself. A few days ago somebody in a childrens tv show showed how the gulf stream is going to break down when the polar ice will be melting. I think this is very very serious for all of us europeans who live very comfortably with it´s warm water.
The german ministers Clement and Trittin (Departments of Economy and Environment) had a struggle how many CO2 (Kohlendioxid, don´t know the english word) can be blown into the atmosphere. Clement (Economy) didn´t want to reduce it because he feared that the german industry could be affected. Children seem to know better. What is the discussion about in America? |
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