>It is impossible to make use of empirical data comparing categories
>_until_ those categories have been identified. Doug, on the other hand,
>assumes that his spontaneous and unexamined categories have a platonic
>existence of their own. That is, he believes that "white working class"
>is a category established by God
I believe no such thing, and I have no idea why you think I do. I think the w.w.c. exists because people think and act as if they're members of it, and gain material and psychological advantages from the assertion of whiteness - sometimes consciously, sometimes unconsciously. God has nothing to do with it.
Doug