[lbo-talk] Re: O'Reilly v. Moore - 2

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Jul 28 19:56:32 PDT 2004


Chuck Grimes wrote:
>
>
> You want to reach out to the working class? Don't talk about
> gender. Talk about dicks and pussy.

Chuck, this is bullshit, extreme bullshit. You are offending 2/3s of the working class in order to make an appeal that won't even work to about 10% of the working class. Who in the hell makes up this "working class" you are talking about?

The largest union, I think someone mentioned today, is the NEA. Add the AFT. Your working class isn't even close to a really large minority of _unionized_ workers. After I wrote a letter to the local paper calling the Mitsubishi workers scabs for supporting Mitsubishi against the charges of sexual harassment, my wife went to work at the post office the next day (she was union president at the time) half expecting to run into a lot of static. Half the force went out of their way to tell her they liked the letter.

If almost anyone but you had written this post I'd unleash my choicest vocabulary on it. You are anything but a scab, so why are you using scab vocabulary?

I appreciate the rage you feel. I've felt it myself. I'm feeling a bit of it now. But that kind of rage is the kind that destroyes movements. It blunts the intellect.

Carrol



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list