W has dredged up the old stereotype of right wing blue color workers, invoking the NY construction trades' attack on Vietnam war protestors in 1969. This was an ana,lous incident. As W ought to know, working class/blue collar America turned against the Vietnam war earlier and more decisively than the "liberal" elite -- after Tet in '68, well before the elite organs switched after Cambodia and Kent & Jackson State in 1970. And of course this was because it was working class folks who were being killed in Vietnam. The NY construction trades were anomalous. jks
Steven McGraw <stmcgraw at vt.edu> wrote:At 12:20 PM 2/12/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>> Again, why focus on construction workers? What do you accomplish?
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>To show that "blue collar worker" in this country is constructed based
>on cultural identity rather than political-economic interests. That
>explains their rabid nationalism (aka patriotism) and willingness to
>beat up those pointed to them as the enemies of the state.
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>Wojtek
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Answer the entire question instead of ignoring what you find inconvenient, or at least answer one of the other posters who has made the same point.
Once again, quoting me:
"Since you admit that there is plenty of support for the war among intellectuals, liberals and wealthy elites, why are you singling out the working class? What's the point?"
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