[lbo-talk] Obama & the white guys

wrobert at uci.edu wrobert at uci.edu
Wed Feb 20 18:46:33 PST 2008


What do you mean by 'accidental' in the Aristotelian sense of the term? (I suppose what I am really asking is what Aristotle means by it....) robert wood


> I suppose the argument could be made that the
> structural disadvantage is one that accrues to people
> from poor families. Thus people with black skin would
> tend to be at a greater disadvantage than those with
> white skin, given that they are more likely to come
> from poor families for obvious historical reasons.
> However, it would be racist only in an accidental
> sense ("accidental" in the Aristotelian sense of the
> term).
>
> --- Julio Huato <juliohuato at gmail.com> wrote:
> If we rule
>> out the assumption
>> that Blacks inherently prefer to be at disadvantage,
>> then the
>> disadvantage is structural. This argument has been
>> made, I'm sure,
>> that people love their oppression and "freely"
>> choose to reproduce it.
>> If that's so, then how did Blacks get to "freely"
>> prefer
>> disadvantages over advantages, bads over goods?
>
> Mataiotes mataioteton, eipen ho Ekklasiastes,
> mataiotes mataioteton, ta panta mataiotes.
>
>
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