Identity politics

[Brad De Long]

Re:
>
>You've left a few things out :-), like
>fat-sustainable deficits, but on
>the whole I've done you wrong.  Sorry.
>
>My main point was that sympathy for
>the poor, Third World or domestic,
>can be and often is less radical
>and more congenial to the status
>quo than a pro-labor stance.  The
>reverse seems less true, but PEN-L
>and LBO-Talk are not dominated by the
>latter phenomenon.
>

I would agree that it does seem easier to find people around San Francisco
who are sympathetic with those working for Nike in Vietnam (or spotted
owls) then people who are sympathetic with poor single mothers or unskilled
workers recently immigrated from Mexico...

Why this is I am not sure...

Brad DeLong