[lbo-talk] Race & Opinions

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Feb 19 08:20:41 PST 2004


Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


>Absolutely. But what I find even more infuriating is a certain genre of
>"knee-jerk-anti-racism" or for that matter "anti-sexism"
>"anti-imperialism" and what not as practiced in the US. It is based on
>the uncritical reversal of the racist/sexist/imperialist discourse.
>Thus, the racist/sexist/imperialist discourse claims that all
>non-whites/women/non-US-ers are morally inferior in one way or another
>or at least suspect.

You've got a point, but isn't it just a bit troubling that the people who make this kind of argument are usually white men?

Doug



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