[lbo-talk] What's the Matter With Kansas

Chuck0 chuck at mutualaid.org
Fri Jun 18 08:46:57 PDT 2004


John Lacny wrote:

But if you don't understand
> the real motivations behind people's thinking
> -- including especially the thinking of
> backward people -- you won't come up with
> good agitprop. And the fact remains that
> white racial anxiety lies behind about 90%
> of "backlash" thinking, even if it's not
> at the forefront 24/7/365. And it will be the
> hardest attitude of all to extirpate.

Lacny will be one of the last leftists to understand those real motivations, because like most white leftist guys, he comes to this with preconceived answers. Lacny is set on his idea that racism is the main motivation underlying the attitudes of conservatives, when reality just doesn't support this assumption. Sure, if you provoke conservatives with the right rhetoric, some of them will respond with racist attitudes. But do the reactions of a few mean that the rest of conservatives are motivated by racism? I just don't buy this. Conservatives don't all fit this liberal cartoon strawman.

Chuck0



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