Scabs?

[J Cullen]

It's ironic that while the right-wing think tanks have enflamed white men
against affirmative action and legitimized neoracism, the left wing
continues to stereotype working-class whites, reinforcing the prejudices of
blue-collars who believe that liberals only care about minorities,
endangered insects and oppressed people overseas. When you start by writing
off most white men as "scabs", it seems to me that you buy into the
politics of division, which has kept workingclass whites, blacks and other
minorities out of power.

-- Jim Cullen

[Jim Heartfield wrote]
>My sympathies are with Maria G here. I can't help but feel that Yoshie
>and Carrol are nurturing an old fashioned prejudice against working
>people underneath their modish anti-racism.
>
>[Kenneth Mostern]  You think maybe its possible for you to have an honest
>disagreement without accusing people you don't know of beating their
>partners?  You think maybe some of us who take Carrol and Yoshie's
>position aren't working people and/or of working class descent ourselves?
>(You think maybe we didn't develop this position in reaction to growing up
>with white working class right-wing parents?)  You think maybe American
>nationalism is not a problem?  You think Carrol's the only person here
>using "emotional" language?
>
>Oh, that's right--you think car culture is about poor people.  You're wrong.
>
>Kenneth Mostern
>Department of English
>University of Tennessee
>
>"Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage."
>	Theodor Adorno

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