[lbo-talk] Link to Muhammed cartoons

Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 2 17:24:28 PST 2006


Carrol:
> Discussion of it also always allows
> meatheads to assume that a racist remark is intrinsic to the words
> rather than to the object of the remarks. There is no such thing as
> anti-white racism, but any law against racist language will be used
> to punish the non-crime of alleged "anti-white racism."

also, words are just a small part of institutional racism. It's a mistake to focus on words and psychological states at the expense of examining institutions. -- Jim Devine "The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." -- James Baldwin



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