Doug:
>>>Well maybe it is. Why are you so sure?
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>> I've already explained why, theoretically and empirically.
Carrol Cox:
> There is a huge enough literature on this that the burden of proof is on
> anyone who wants to claim that white workers _as a group_ benefit from
> racism.
>
> Equally, of course, large numbers, perhaps a majority, of white workers
> believe (or act as though they believe) that whites as whites benefit
> from racism. This is another case where Doug's penchant for asking
> questions in a vacuum at least resembles a conscious effort to _prevent_
> the raising of politically or theoretically pertinent questions.
>
> There are crucial questions here and Doug's frivolity on this thread
> seems designed to block articulation of those questions.
Not to defend Doug or anything, but it seems to me there is a huge amount of theory (rhetoric) going the other way as well which cannot be lightly dismissed. We are not -- if we are reading around, at least -- in a vacuum.
Probably, some of the issue turns on what we mean by "benefit".