Stupid White Men
02 January 2004, 09:03 AM
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I got bought this book for Christmas, It makes for fascinating & very persuasive reading. Comes very highly recommended
02 January 2004, 10:52 AM
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It's a book by Michael Moore - and highly recommended. Here is a sample/bonus chapter from his website (MichaelMoore.com).
Here's what the website says about the book:
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Stupid White Men
.. and other sorry excuses for the state of the nation!
Remember when everything was looking up? When the government was running at a surplus, pollution was disappearing, peace was breaking out in the Middle East and Northern Ireland, and the Bridge to the Twenty-First Century was strung with high-speed Internet cable and paved with 401K gold? Well, so much for the future. Whether he's calling for United Nations action to overthrow the Bush Family Junta, calling on African-Americans to place whites only signs over the entrances of unfriendly businesses, or praying that Jesse Helms will get kissed by a man, Michael Moore is out to cure the world of a plague of stupid white men.
The #1 Top Selling Nonfiction book of the 2002, Stupid White Men has been on the New York Times Bestseller list for over a year. A #1 Bestseller in Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Australia, Japan, Ireland, & New Zealand, it has been translated into 24 languages and has sold more than 3 million copies worldwide.
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Here's what the website says about the book:
"...
Stupid White Men
.. and other sorry excuses for the state of the nation!
Remember when everything was looking up? When the government was running at a surplus, pollution was disappearing, peace was breaking out in the Middle East and Northern Ireland, and the Bridge to the Twenty-First Century was strung with high-speed Internet cable and paved with 401K gold? Well, so much for the future. Whether he's calling for United Nations action to overthrow the Bush Family Junta, calling on African-Americans to place whites only signs over the entrances of unfriendly businesses, or praying that Jesse Helms will get kissed by a man, Michael Moore is out to cure the world of a plague of stupid white men.
The #1 Top Selling Nonfiction book of the 2002, Stupid White Men has been on the New York Times Bestseller list for over a year. A #1 Bestseller in Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Australia, Japan, Ireland, & New Zealand, it has been translated into 24 languages and has sold more than 3 million copies worldwide.
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02 January 2004, 11:29 AM
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I've just finished reading his new book "Dude, Where's my Country" which is mainly to do with the ficticious reasons for going to war, linking Al queda with Saddam Hussain etc. Also worth a read is you like his style.
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02 January 2004, 12:03 PM
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He tells the reader what he wants them to know.
Not very objective writing, facinating but it concerns me that people may make judgements based on his books.
He only likes one side of the coin and forgets about the other.
IMO of course.
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02 January 2004, 01:17 PM
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But the argument goes that you can get the other side of the coin from just watching/reading most of the media?
He does make some excellent points, but is very biased...I got very annoyed with some of the huge holes in his arguments in Stupid White Men, so stopped 2/3 of the way through
He does make some excellent points, but is very biased...I got very annoyed with some of the huge holes in his arguments in Stupid White Men, so stopped 2/3 of the way through
02 January 2004, 03:17 PM
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if it was called "stupid black men " there would be a freekin' riot, but as we all know you can only be racist towards blacks etc,it's not possible to be racist towards whites
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