[Fwd: THE TEARS OF THE MIGHTY]

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Mar 15 15:11:26 PST 2000


Charles Brown wrote:


>CB: So the answer to your original question - who would decide what
>is racism ? - is "it should be decided democratically ".
>
>You want to pretend that somehow the decision on what is "racism" is
>uniquely influenced by the state powers you don't like, but
>decisions on other policies are not .

I'm drawing a distinction between what the state does and what it does or does not allow people to say. There's a big difference in my book, even if speech is a kind of act.

Doug



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