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>Carrol Cox wrote:
> > There are too many Indians, not enough chiefs on the left,
>
>I really hate this phrase.
>
>John Thornton
Even with the clever reversal? Next we'll hear that the left should have a pow wow to work things out.
But, I think this is a good place to repost something I sent the other day from Judith Butler.
>I think in the US we go around trying to target people who say
>racist things, and indeed there
>are good reasons to do that, targeting people who say homophobic things,
>holding them responsible for their speech. I think there are all kinds of
>reasons to stop a person when they speak such things and say, for example,
>`look, that's a racist act'. I think that's important. But I think a
>politics that begins and ends with that policing function is a
>mistake, because for me the
>question is how is that person, as it were, renewing and reinvigorating racist
>rituals of speech, and how do we think about those particular rituals and
>how do we exploit their ritual function in order to undermine it in a more
>thorough-going way, rather than just stopping it as it's spoken. What would
>it mean to restage it, take it, do something else with the ritual so that its
>revivability as a speech act is really seriously called into question.
<http://awayward.com/library/Philosophy/JudithButler/Judith%20Butler%20Interview.pdf>http://awayward.com/library/Philosophy/JudithButler/Judith%20Butler%20Interview.pdf