08/11/2007 9:25:55 pm
Seeing With Different Glasses. A society with severe social problems due to neoliberal policies, a genuinely immoral and violent place - and with bizarrely loose gun laws. Has anyone heard statements like this about Finland as a consequence of the tragic shooting in a Finnish school, killing nine people? At least I haven′t noticed any such interpretations. But when similar events take place in the US, that is what many commentators say. There is simply a difference between objective analysis and ideological propaganda.