racist opinion a crime ?

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Sat Mar 31 08:23:20 PST 2001



>On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 22:50:45 -0500 "Dennis" <dperrin13 at mediaone.net>
>writes:
>
>>But I do have trouble with Marxist managerial types who drone on
>>and on about "the workers" and then yell "foul" when a shovel is
>>produced. I do blue-collar work.
>
>Yes, we are all impressed by the callouses on your hands.
>I am amused by how both an anti-communist like Dennis
>and someone like Louis Godena (the Nietzschean Maoist
>of Rhode Island) can both answer arguments by trotting
>out the same sort of workerist rhetoric. At least Godena
>is more erudite.
>
>>You don't speak for me, babe, so
>>spare me the sermons about "the people."
>
>I very much doubt that Yoshie, even in her worst nightmares
>would dream of speaking for Dennis.
>
>Jim F.

I found the simultaneous references to "managerial types" & "babe" interesting. We have a long way to go. In the twenty-first century, I hope there will be no more equation of the working class with "blue-collar" men.

Yoshie



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