renouncing whiteness

Christopher B. Hajib-Niles cniles at wanadoo.fr
Tue Nov 28 07:03:45 PST 2000



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> At 10:00 AM 11/28/00 +0200, chris n. wrote:
> really going on. reality is dynamic. it is important that the words we use
> when trying to communicate get as close to that reality as possible. terms
> such as 'white,''racialism,' 'racialized,''whiteism,' 'whitness,'
> 'anti-black,''blackness,''anti-racialist,'non-white,' etc., are not
> perfect. but i would argue that they are far, far, far more precise than
> highly vague, overly suggestive terms such as 'racist' and 'people of color.'
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> So if we just use the right combination of words, poverty and inequality
> would just disappear,

oh stop it, you silly man, you. nobody said this.

and if on the top of it we manage to make the whitey
> feel guilty, we would reach a nirvana on earth. In 1980s we had voodoo
> economics and a "just say no to drugs" philosophy promoted by the Great
> Communicator. Now we have voodoo revolution and "just say no to white"
> philosophy promoted by grassroots activists. Is that the "trickle down"
> thing, or what?
>
you've created a lovely straw man, woj, and burned him down with righteous revolutionary zeal. congrats.

chris niles


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