"Average Joe"

[David Jennings]

> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 05:50:25 +0200
> From: "Kevin Robert Dean" <qualiall at union.org.za>
> Subject: Re: "Average Joe"
>
> On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 21:39:10 -0600
>  Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> > Is anyone else offended by this elimination of half the
> > population in
> > trying to characterize the working class?
> >
> > Carrol
> >
>
> Of course if you want to get really technical, it
> eliminates much more than 50% of the working class?  What
> about "Average Tong" or "Average Muhammud"?  The list could
> go on and on....

Who's eliminating what?  In Fisk's article and later in Taibbi's, the
anti-anti-war protagonist (in the one case actual, in the other imaginary)
is a male, and I'm pretty sure Anglo and Christian.  You know - "Joe".
That's the population among the working class that's not being reached,
correct?  But hey, if you _like_ being offended, go ahead.

For my part, I'll be sure to weigh down each of my once-every-two-months
posts to lbo-talk with scare quotes.  I would think that in mentioning any
"average" population of any sort, that would be understood.

-d