Talk:Medea Benjamin
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[edit] WTO and arrests
Benjamin disputes the statement that she wanted anyone arrested here. Kellen T 17:46, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Criticism by Horowitz
I understand the validity of mentioning David Horowitz's criticism of Benjamin. However, since Horowitz makes it his job to accuse virtually all leftists as being Communist sympathizers, I wonder how one makes a determination to include his criticisms and at what length? Does he get a nice long paragraph in the entry for every prominent proponent of universal health care, lifting the embargo on Cuba or ending the US occupation of Iraq?
- We need some representative criticism of her from the right. If we could get a better source than Horowitz, that would be great, for the reasons you mention. But a quick google doesn't turn anything else up. Unfortunately, since Horowitz maintains DiscoverTheNetwork and FrontPageMag to criticize specific leftists, he's often the only rightwinger with any specific criticisms of people or organizations, at least online. Kalkin 18:45, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
- The section in question is titled "Criticism of leftist views" - are the views cited "leftist", or are they just to the left of Horowitz? The section states as fact that "Benjamin is unpopular among conservatives" - yet only one conservative citation can be found, according to Kalkin. Her views are described as "perceived anti-American" and then a Horowitz list of such dreadful, "anti-American" views as siding with the US Congress against aid to the Contras and siding with the majority of Americans by supporting universal health care is provided. I've edited out "anti-American" as baseless even with the adjective "perceived" lest this section seem more McCarthyite than encyclopedic. I happen to share with John Quincy Adams the belief that the US does not go abroad to seek monsters to destroy, but I don't see Bush and Cheney tarred with the anti-American brush on their wikipages. (I admit that I didn't check - if Bush and Cheney are, in fact, named as "perceived anti-American" on their wikipages, please feel free to revert that portion of my edit.) Biederman 22:28, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Money?
On Fox news they called her a trust fund baby. True? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.206.165.32 (talk • contribs)
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[edit] Category:American anti-Iraq War activists
User:Thoughtman keeps removing this article from Category:American anti-Iraq War activists.
A person qualifies for the category if she (a) is opposed to the war in Iraq and (b) is an American residing in America who has said publicly either that (i) she believes that the Iraq War was illegal from the beginning or (ii) she believes that the Iraq War is being waged imprudently and she has become publicly known as a critic of the war or the justifications used to launch it.
This article is largely made up of instances of Benjamin's public protests against the war in Iraq. In my view, she clearly satisfies the criteria for inclusion in the category. What do other editors think? — Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs) 03:19, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
- I think you're right. At one point I supported the removal because Benjamin is not only opposed to the Iraq War, but more generally antiwar. However, looking at the category description, I don't think that matters, and looking at the current population of the category, she's far from alone. Kalkin (talk) 13:14, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
It's not an appropriate category and the only reason others like her are on there is because of Shabazz! --Thoughtman (talk) 17:14, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- There are nearly 100 articles in that category, and I've only edited three of them. Surely you've got a better argument than "It's Shabazz's fault". — Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs) 17:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
