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F* the for-profit paper media:

MySpace caves into patriarchal white hysteria

The perfect mainstream print media news story hit in June when a 16 year-old white womyn went off to Palestine to marry a 20-year-old she met on myspace.com. Instead of upholding marriage, the Bush administration mobilized a persyn-hunt and brought her home after she disappeared from backwaters Michigan June 5th in order to elope.

The story was perfect for anti-Arab newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post. Their anti-Arab competitor Murdoch owns myspace.com.

For one, for years, the print media (on paper) have sought to persuade the public that the Internet is a dangerous place filled with inaccurate information, credit card scams and homicidal plots.

For two, the message of this story--despite the fact that even Bush administration officials admitted "no crime occurred"-- was that dating or marrying a Palestinian was an international emergency.

For three, the print media demagogues got to combine all that with "pro-family" rhetoric of aiding parents desperately seeking control of their 16-year-old daughter. As it turns out, parents and Michigan prosecutors intimidated the womyn into turning over her passport; even though she is now 17 and still says she wants to marry her West Bank boyfriend.

Earth-to-whitey hysterics: 16 is the legal age for marriage. If you don't like it, change the age. We rather think it should be lowered. If parents are so insecure, they should think about training their daughters to be more fully independent by age 16.

In response to the hoopla, myspace.com made it more difficult for older users to contact younger ones. This act of "protection" makes interaction between adults and children less likely. It's nothing new for police-state logic, one scare justifying a whole lot of repression.

Uh, and Earth-to-Arab-bourgeoisie--yes this hoopla in the media means that Amerikkkans don't count you as white. In fact, you are somewhere lower than any oppressed nation trapped inside U.$. borders in Amerikkkans' eyes, because 16-year-olds going off and getting married is not usually front-page news. Usually they wait long enough to lynch someone. In your case, they acted before two people could get sight of each other.

The Bush move to block a marriage to a Palestinian comes amidst a flurry of Bush moves to tarnish gender relations among Arab and Islamic peoples. Real communists fight against this chauvinist tide.

Notes:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-myspace30.html
The Washington Post's article attacking the Murdoch-owned myspace.com was titled "Invitation to Harm," on July 4th, supposed holiday of freedom
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/03/AR2006070300788.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/14/AR2006061401729.html
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150035839759&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull