I must admit, I took great pleasure in watching Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s point-by-point demolition of Avi Lewis’s views on the United States. [via Jay Currie, who got the last word in in the comments section; links via SDA, via Hot Air]
My fave quote: “So I don’t find myself in the same luxury that you do. You grew up in freedom, and you can spit on freedom, because you don’t know what it is not to have freedom. I haven’t.“
What she said, though — it’s just as true for Canada, too. We enjoy being fashionably cynical about the rich and access to power, but if you come without a penny in your pocket, you still can get ahead, you still can end up — or your children can end up — in the highest of positions.
I don’t think that many of the privileged among us — and I certainly have been in a privileged position, myself (though it’s nothing compared to Lewis, of course) — realize just how rare that is in this world.
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Greg // July 26, 2007 at 7:45 am
I thought they both came off badly. They both looked really, really naive. He was mouthing variations of “America is shit” and she was replying with variations of “America’s the best”. A waste of time if you ask me.
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