whites deny racism; others disagree

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Fri Jul 6 10:52:15 PDT 2001


At 01:35 PM 7/6/01 -0400, Yoshie wrote:
>The segmented labor market, through which race is in part produced,
>can't be abolished by individual workers trying to gain connections,
>though. Those at the bottom may want to get to know very important
>people, but not vice versa.
>

True, but it was not the point I was arguing in my initial post. I was arguing that humans tend to be more of ex-post facto rationalizers (rather than rat-choicers) so it is misleading to their rationalizations of their face value and treat them as a descroption of reality. I was not arguing how hiring decisions are made or how capitalist labor markets operate.

Even in a perfectly socialist system, people will still rationalize away their negative experiences.

wojtek



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