[lbo-talk] Sowell on "black rednecks"

[Michael Dawson]

Snit has it right.  The problem with everything Sowell says is the same as
what all mainstream U.S. thinkers say:  They use "culture" as a Trojan Horse
for preserving and importing the old elitist saws about the biological
superiority of those who have "made it."  As writers like George Fredrickson
and Stephen Steinberg explain, there is very little difference between
saying somebody is genetically inferior and that somebody is hopeless
mangled by "their" culture.  If culture is deep, unchangeable, and an
emanation of racial groups rather than history and institutions, it's merely
old-school Social Darwinism in a slick new overcoat.

 

The way to attack this shit is to present the actual history after going
after the conceptual sophomorism of its peddlers.  "Culture" schmulture!

 

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Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Sowell on "black rednecks"

 

He's not really saying the South stinks. He's saying poor white trash
stinks. As Chuck Grimes pointed out, he's not especially saying anything
about the current administration, which is cut out of the same cloth and
finds its constituency there.

Basically it's another spin on the white-trash/n-word formula, which has
been playing  in this country for a long time.

Joanna

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:

Kelley:

  

But no. Sowell pretends that it's all reducible to culture, going after
poor whites in the south is simply a way for him to legiiimate his shit
about blacks. In either case, he's a racist, through and through. His is a
cultural racism.

    

 
What is so racist in arguing that the South stinks? 

 
Wojtek

 

 

 
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