>Doug Henwood wrote:
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>> If you say that white workers (and male workers) as a group gain from
>> racism (or sexism) - how is that locating racism (or sexism) in the
>> individual? It's an advantage gained (if it is) by membership in the
>> group, and maintaining the advantage requires maintaining the group's
>> identity.
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>But white workers don't exist as a group. The assumption that there is
>such a group is an analytic error which besides being an error
>contributes to racist ideology.
They think they do. They talk like they do. They act like they do. Could you do the world a favor and inform them that they've committed an "analytic error"?
Doug