Identity politics

[Brad De Long]

Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>So what you're saying is that Alterman is to be excused for writing an
>incoherent column?
>
>If the pomoistas are fighting for the local working class in a concrete and
>important way, then why the slashing of the early part of the column? Maybe
>there's no conflict between "ending sexism, racism, or homophobia" and
>fighting a living wage campaign? Maybe sex and race have something to do
>with the low pay of janitors. I spent 3 years in Charlottesville and I
>remember it as one of the most racially hierarchialized places I've ever
>been; a British friend said it reminded her of Johannesburg. And if you
>don't think sex and sexuallity have anything to do with the construction of
>race - in the hometown of Thomas Jefferson, where you can practically get
>arrested for mentioning the name Sally Hemmings - you need psychoanalysis.
>
>Doug

I surrender.

I skimmed over the first paragraph of the column, found the end of it
arresting, and that is what stuck in my mind.

You're right. The best that can be said of it is that it is incoherent...

Brad DeLong