> > 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
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>No, I said race does not refer; in that respect it is like phlogiston.
If you meant to say that race doesn't _explain_, instead of saying "race doesn't refer," I might agree, but I gather that's not what you mean.
Yoshie