Nov 24 2009
Looks like Babalu’s overlords…
…have decided to extend us the same honor they extended to SFDB before: links from AGI to Babalu posts are being redirected to Shrub’s presidential library’s website.
Puerile, laughable and ineffectual (it doesn’t even work on every browser), but that’s hardliners for you. Not secure enough in their convictions to test them in a real battlefield of ideas. Instead they insult, bully, belittle, censor and ban anybody who doesn’t join their little Greek chorus. Just take a look at the comments in any of their posts. The last time I saw so many people toeing the party line it was in communist Cuba.
In contrast, Val Prieto and his friends have always been welcomed here and have taken advantage of that privilege extensively. That is exactly the purpose of a blog in my opinion, to foment the free debate of ideas no matter how antagonistic. Obviously they don’t think the same way, and it is obvious to any outside observer which one of these attitudes is really congruent with the ideals of a democratic society.
No matter. I’ll continue to take them to task, because I decided a while ago that Babalu’s hardliner views weren’t going to be the only English-language representative of Cubans and Cuban Americans in the blogosphere, and I’m joined by my co-bloggers in this effort. They aren’t even the majority anymore, and they won’t go unchallenged.
And from now on, I’ll just copy and paste the pertinent link in the text of the post, in case you want to see what I’m reacting to. They can close the door of their little house, but they can’t keep the world from peeking inside.
Welcome to the club, guys.
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Broward Beat…
Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez has them shaking their heads, if not shaking in their boots on Calle Ocho.
This leading Cuban dissident has called for an end to the Cuban embargo that has been the centerpiece of American foreign policy for almost fifty years.
Right on girl!
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The reactionary whack jobs in Miami will say Sanchez was forced to write this or she is a double agent for Fidel.
Either way they will continue to live in their own stupid little world that is best characterized by 50 years of failure.
Yoani Sanchez is the future and we need to encourage her and the people who think like her.
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Today, my son, you are a man.
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You gotta love this.
They act like they have all the answers but this makes it clear that even they realize that their infantile views can’t survive outside of their little echo chamber.
I think it’s safe to say we’ve won at least this battle.
Onwards.
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Congrats. They seem to have finally admitted to themselves they can’t best your arguments.
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I read babalu religiously. Every day, just for laughs.
I know it is sort of mean-spirited for me to laugh at it / them.
I guess it is partially a psychological manifestation of my relief that those people have become so impotent, and so irrelevant.
How many editors and contributing writers do they claim to have on the sidebar … 20 or so? How many of them are active … 3 or 4? How many active forum participants are there at babalu … 5 or 6? It’s pretty clear that the rats are scampering from a sinking ship.
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