> 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
> >*******
> >
> >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
***********
If it doesn't refer how can it explain? So we do agree :-).
<http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~delittle/INTERES2.PDF>
Ian