Zionism vs. Black Nationalism
Gordon Fitch
gcf at panix.com
Fri Aug 3 06:59:24 PDT 2001
Doug:
> >Hmm, but if a racial category was invented in the process of
> >oppression, then how is accepting that category negating it? Looks to
> >me more like a perverse reinforcement. The negation would be to
> >reject racial categorization altogether.
Rob Schaap:
> That's you, Foucault, and me in perfect agreement. Had to happen some
> time, I s'pose.
Desirable / positive / constructive things are constructed by
the oppressed in order to deal with their oppression some of
which are built ironically using the very structure of the
oppression. Maybe more often than not. So then getting rid
of it is not all that simple.
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