[lbo-talk] Re: "Race" and opinion

Tahir Wood twood at uwc.ac.za
Wed Feb 18 00:17:09 PST 2004



>> lbo-talk-request at lbo-talk.org 02/18/04 04:12AM >>>
Just by looking at my name, you can tell that it's not a white name. If you are a bit savvy about languages, you can also tell my national heritage and even gender without my telling you.

Do white cyber-denizens imagine that their race is invisible to others, even after chatting for months online, without their endeavoring to perform another racial identity? Yoshie

"perform another racial identity" - is that what the Japanese are doing in Iraq, performing a "white" racial identity? This is the kind of shit that gives Cult Studies a bad name. But let's move on. Once again you've managed to evade all the substantive points that were made - all you've left us with is the rather dangerous proposition that black people (ooh sorry, people of colour) like terrorism because it gives them a feeling of schadenfreude and white people hate it because it makes them feel insecure. You want to fucking lecture me about racial politics? Japanese people were classified as "honorary whites" in South Africa because Japan traded with apartheid South Africa, and I never heard of this status being rejected, did you?

Personally I'm not disappointed that you have exposed your obscurantism this way. Keep it up.

Tahir



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