BK on Identity

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>  > Do white workers have a "group identity" with "group interests"
>>  separable from a racist & anti-working-class abstraction?
>>
>>  Doesn't the act of telling workers that "racism is in the interest of
>>  white workers" basically create the racist & anti-working-class
>>  abstraction called "the white working class"?
>>
>>  Yoshie
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>
>How do we identify and eradicate those communicational zones whereby this
>message perpetuates itself. That you admit it's an abstraction is very
>revealing.
>
>Ian

My objection to your commentary on race is that you treat blacks & 
whites _symmetrically_, i.e. _both_ as possessing significance 
comparable to the ideas of angels, witches, phlogiston, etc.  I'm 
saying that only the idea of "the white working class" is a racist & 
anti-working class abstraction.  I reject the symmetry, in other 
words.

Yoshie