Rachel Corrie

[theapportioner]

I am glad I hadn't wasted my time on this before, and irritated to have just read all that garbage. Rachel Corrie's death neither justifies nor diminishes the moral arguments of the conflict, from any side. What irritates me, personally, is that these character assassinations, sensible or otherwise, aren't really about seeking the truth, but about making the grievances of the other side look like shit. Never mind the security question, or the refugee question, or the colonialism question -- we should instead occupy ourselves with annoying distractions like these. And that these distractions somehow invalidate the entire movement, or argument. Trash on the level of Hard Copy journalism, pretending to be morally supreme. But, I guess there is an audience for tabloid toss... Anyway, this is no longer worth a minute of my time.