Horowitz/Reparations for slavery

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>To paraphrase Art, the _nature_ of the _idea_ of "the white working 
>>class" (with its own "group interests" to be protected from black & 
>>other discriminated-against workers) _is_ ignorance, backwardness, 
>>treachery, and reaction.
>
>This is what I meant by racism without racists. How can an idea be 
>ignorant or treacherous? It's because people who hold that idea - 
>consciously or not - act ignorantly and treacherously (though like I 
>keep saying, plenty of union workers have done their best 
>consciously to exclude nonwhite nonmen).
>
>Doug

Where did I ever say that no one believes in the idea of "the white 
working class" with its own "group interests"?  Many do, and that's 
the ideological problem.  I've been arguing against your & Heather 
Boushey's claim about racism here (among others) because it appeared 
to me that you two believed that "racism is in the interest of white 
workers."  If you don't, that's fine.

Yoshie

P.S.  It occurs to me that maybe you don't want to understand what 
I'm saying on this subject because you don't want to make an 
analytical distinction between real interests and ideological beliefs 
for reasons unknown to me.