[lbo-talk] 'American kids, dumber than dirt'

[ravi]

On 4 Nov, 2007, at 22:53 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Nov 4, 2007, at 10:39 PM, ravi wrote:
>
>> But what is the real difference? In reality, Kerry and Bush belong to
>> the same class.
>
> Gee, they do?
>
> The point is the Bush people were marketing to a particular deeply
> embedded feature of American political culture.

The point is that whatever it is, it is not class consciousness. So,  
the "attacks" on Kerry (feminisation, etc) are not against a class  
except in a set theoretical sense. Ergo, they cannot be class insults.

	--ravi