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>There are two wings of "whiteness studies": the Race Traitor wing (Noel
>Ignatiev, David Roediger, etc.) & the obscurantist wing (represented here
>by Kelley). While Rakesh (probably correctly) used to argue that both
>wings are reformist, vainly hoping for an anti-racist Keynesian revival of
>social democracy, there is a virtue in the Race Traitor wing: they do not
>use the idea of "whiteness as social construction" in an effort not to
>think too hard about racial profiling, police brutality, etc. & how they
>have affected blacks & Latinos. It is nonsense to argue that
>Polish-Americans get stopped & harassed by cops as often as blacks,
>Latinos, & Arabs do.
nothing yoshie in a word i typed entitles you to say any of the above and try to attribute that to me.
FOAD: into the filter file you go. you are utterly impossible to have a discussion with.
kelley