renouncing whiteness

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 02:47 PM 11/22/00 -0500, Yoshie wrote:
>>That prompted my
>>agreement with Norman Finkelstein's thesis that US political discourse
>>tends to be driven by grievance manufacturing industries controlled by
>>ethnic groups. 
>>
>>wojtek
>
>Blame it on lawyers.  No grievance, no litigation.
>

Why lawyers?  It is identity politics that I had in mind.  And the
intellectual commodity producers who manufacture grievances as the means of
reinforcing identities which form nice market niches for their products.

wojtek