And I too, a white male, was alienated from the high-powered world of academic analytical philosophy for the same reason. I analysed it as testocerone poisoning, although "analysed" may be too strong a word: that was what I called it. Course there are almost no Blacks in philosophy; it might well have a racial compenent too. --jks
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>>but i do! maybe that's why you ignored my question. listen, if you >here's
>>a story. i had a friend in grad school, R. she and i used
>to talk about our experiences as "outsiders" to white, upper middle class
>academia. she black, from well-to-do family, from historically black
>college; me from poor white background, went to nontrad state uni. R used
>to call it all racism, what she experienced. for example, the lack of
>cooperation among her colleagues, their extreme individualistic
>competitiveness, etc were, she said, about being white. but i wasn't so
>sure about that b/c i experienced the same, found their world alien as
>well.
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