Canadian intelligentsia, God help us. I mean seriously, this is how the world percieves us, through the lens of taxpayer supported Cancon drivel spewed by marxists who don't think Stalin and Mao went far enough with 30 million deaths.
Posted at 2008-04-22 18:24:47 [PermaLink]Well to do professional parents who send their children to trendy socially conscious private schools (St. George's in Montreal) beware. After your daughters go through the weekly nail wraps and hairdos at La Coupe they turn into large scale hypocrites in Versace dresses and whatever shoes and handbags are the costliest available aka Naomi clones.
Posted at 2008-04-22 19:48:27 [PermaLink]Pity the reviewer who had to read the book. An intellectual "taster" if you will. Poor bloke, he's been poisoned.
Posted at 2008-04-22 19:52:58 [PermaLink]I am one person facing the likelihood of sending my two daughters to one of the Toronto private schools. There are many pros and cons, the main pro being that there is no reasonable highschool in my district, so I don't really have a choice, but but one of the strongest cons is the prospect that my kids will be subjected to the elitist lefty-who-has-never-known-hardship school of thinking.
Klein is a national embarrassment.
When I was a kid and we played war we always knew the bad guys were commies and that they would torture you if they caught you alive. I guess Klein thinks that being a velvet gloved commie buys her a free pass. (real conservative)
Posted at 2008-04-22 19:56:54 [PermaLink]Re: "She cannot quite pin the 2004 Asian tsunami on the Chicago School economists, but she implies that they must have greeted it with a round of applause"
The National Post excerpted Klein's book shortly after it was published. I believe one of Klein's pet theories was how the evil capitalists took advantage of Sri Lanka's post-tsunami coastal devastation to gain control of prime coastal properties. Several days later, a reader's letter stated that he currently lived and worked in that region and, quite frankly, Klein either hadn't visited and made it all up or was lying. Priceless.
As far as I can tell, here is the essence of Naomi Klein: "Once upon a time, I was a silly, vapid, shallow mall rat. Now, I could accept the fact that I was silly, vapid, and shallow -- or I could blame capitalism. Guess which I picked!"
Posted at 2008-04-23 00:39:33 [PermaLink]"She cannot quite pin the 2004 Asian tsunami on the Chicago School economists, but she implies that they must have greeted it with a round of applause"
Sounds like a "hate crime" against Chicago economists to me ...
"When I was a kid and we played war we always knew the bad guys were commies and that they would torture you if they caught you alive"
So, did you play a good guy or a bad guy?