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Re: The two faces of Amis (4.00 / 3)

Good grief, it's appalling. I hadn't realized how far the rot had gone in Amis's mind. He's championing fucking Mark Steyn, for goodness' sake. Eurabia, so-called "Muslim" birth rates as against "white" birth rates... Has feminism killed our civilisation by allowing women not to have baby after baby? Aarrgghh!

But people like Amis (and Hitchens) are above all stylists, as Hari surmises. Perfectly-marshalled pugnacious prose with a fucked-up upper-class English mind behind it. Time goes by and the atavism shows.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Jan 29th, 2008 at 03:52:53 PM EST
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there's an easy slide (none / 1)

from anti-clericalism, which goes back to the enlightenment, to focusing specifically on the religions and superstitions of those who one views as ethnically or racially beneath them.

by wu ming on Wed Jan 30th, 2008 at 04:35:07 AM EST
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and i say this as an atheist [nt] (none / 1)

by wu ming on Wed Jan 30th, 2008 at 04:35:49 AM EST
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