I heard about Mike Moore's lastest effort: Bowling for Columbine (2003) on RN tonight. Apparently it has been threatened with censorship by the local authorities. It considers the responsibility of America's society with respect to levels of violence and gun laws. Did I hear the whisper of freedom of speech??? Must have imagined it....

I haven't heard many, who aren't self-interested, arguing against Mike Moore's view of the world. One of the few I have heard was Terry Lane from RN, when reviewing the book Mike Moore's new book, "Stupid White Men". Terry raised the point that the world's evils are not wholly caused by the white man, even if a large proportion of them. I think Terry's point was, power has the potential to corrupt, no matter who wields it, and that simply labelling one group as the root of all evil doesn't actually address the real problem, or indeed effect a solution. The other point to be made was that not all white men are bad, many being a victim of other white men. So Terry's main objections were that Mike Moore didn't appear to acknowledge these points of "power corrupts" and "some isn't all", in the book. I guess it's hard to exemplify otherwise since it just so happens that white men wield a lot of the power, particularly in the US.

p.s. the same could probably be applied to white women too.