[lbo-talk] The Wanted Man, Smorasbord, and Student as Customer

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Glad you liked it and glad to see someone else wrote about it. Pointed 
readers at his discussion and the lively comments section. I pointed out in 
my latest post just why the students were probably really upset with the 
smorgasbord thing: not b/c of the food issues, but because the very 
rejection of the smorgasbord approach challenges the way they think about 
rcism to begin with: from a very individualistic perspective where racism 
is something blacks practice on whiates and vice versa and there's no 
structure or logic to it. Thus, equal time for all is what they think is 
right. By dismissing that approach, they read you as dismissing them. But, 
since they don't know any other way to think about it, they latch on to the 
food thing and run with it. They are, themselves, confused as to what's 
bugging them. (My two cents anyway. You'll only get the irony if you read 
the post. :)

Hey, and I forgot to say: Hope everyone likes the new blog design. I still 
have to get the rotator working, but this way you can pick you own sexy 
header image -- or not, if you're at work. the images are still sexy, just 
not risque! :)

I've ended up reworking the whole thing in more corporate neutral stuff b/c 
it's turningout to be a perfect sales tool -- I freakin' hope anyway.

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At 12:27 PM 4/27/2006, Stephen Philion wrote:
>http://citypages.com/databank/27/1319/article14196.asp
>
>Kelli has a nice commentary about this at her blog:
>
>http://blog.pulpculture.org/2006/04/18/wanted-man/
>
>And here was some of the discussion generated at a blog run by a Hamline 
>grad [Yoshie chipped in with supportive comments], though the matter 
>petered out pretty fast like a snuffed out baby to quote a Hamline prof 
>and friend:
>
><http://pretentiousblowhard.org/2006/03/15/hamline-prof-gets-the-markowitz-treatment/#comments>