[lbo-talk] school uniforms (was: Ehrenreich responds to BDL)

Eubulides paraconsistent at comcast.net
Fri Aug 22 21:08:25 PDT 2003


----- Original Message ----- From: "Miles Jackson" <cqmv at pdx.edu>


> This is why the school uniform thing doesn't bother me:
> the constraint on appearance due to school uniforms
> is obvious to everyone. The constraint imposed by
> "fashion" is more insidious, because people tend to
> glorify fashion as individual expression. This
> individualist ideology completely obscures the fact
> that the "choices" of the kid in the hiphuggers and the
> platform shoes is just as much a predictable product
> of social structures as is a Catholic kid's school
> uniform.
>
> Miles

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What is a constraint free choice?

Ian



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