----- Original Message ----- From: "pms" <laflame at aaahawk.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 7:44 PM Subject: Re: Inbred, was, something else
> i have listened to the condescending crap all my life. it's
fucking
> racializing stereotyping because it marks the bodies, souls,
and minds of
> the poor in a way that is as damaging as any other racializing
or gendered
> marking of bodies that goes on at the micro and macro levels of
gender and
> racial oppression that we consider "honorable" and worthy of
"our"
> attention.
>
>
> kelley
>
> For years I've half wondered if Springer and Mauri and Ricki,
and now all
> the court shows, aren't part of a campaign to demean and
demoralize the
> working class and allow the professional classes to feel that
these people
> wouldn't know what to do with a retirement benefit if they could
get one.
=============== Not a year goes by without the Washington Post print articles and poll results on the apathy of the US citizenry and their ignorance of politics and public policy issues. The wonks keep a special place in their office infested cortex' regarding the "rational ignorance" of median voter theories and the like. That town is very, very sick-if you'll pardon the reifying.
Ian