BK on Identity

[Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema]

This is where it is very helpful to look at the work of people like Joel
Kovel, which enables us to examine both conscious and unconscious levels of
racism and the psychic rewards it offers, spurious and illusory though we
may know them to be. It also shows how racism, in complex, frequently
contradictory ways, can influence its victims.

Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema

Gar Lipow wrote:


> Doug wrote
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> >>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
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> Doug, can we take it that you are now arguing the possibility of
> subjective and pyschological benefits from racism? That you do not
> believe a strong argument can be made that white workers, and male
> workers have more dollars in their pockets than they would if racism and
> sexism were significantly reduced?  Relative advantage is a problem
> worth talking about, but is a vastly different one than an absolute
> gain.