It's multiculturalism's fault that the US has never had a black president.
--- On Tue, 3/31/09, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] umbrellas and hasidism
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 3:06 PM
> Zizek is almost too kind to
> multiculturalism,Diversity, etc. The coining
> of these terms marks the gravestone on the Black Liberation
> Movement of
> the '60s. That movement having been stopped (mostly by
> murder, e.g., of
> Hampton) and other repressive measures, partly by granting
> of minimally
> necessary demands an the consequent creation of a black
> "middle class"
> with interests of their own independent of Black
> Liberation, a polite
> replacement was needed to sop up or isolate any remaining
> serious
> struggle gainst racism. Multicultralism did the trick.
>
> Carrol
>
>
> Dennis Claxton wrote:
> >
> > I think here we had enough of this multicultural
> > ideology, which for me at least is often an
> > inverted racism – namely for example when people
> > come here – typically multiculturalists would
> > say: “Oh I want to understand how you are
> > different.” No, what you should understand is
> > that fundamentally they are not different here –
> > just different things happened to them.... I
> > think we should totally object to this liberal
> > blackmail; we should understand each other – no
> > the world is too complex we can not – I hate
> > people, I don't want to understand people. I want
> > to have a certain code where I don’t understand
> > your way of life and you don't understand mine but we
> still can coexist.
> >
> > Slavoj Zizek in a recent interview, where he also
> > calls himself "an old-fashioned Marxist."
> >
> > http://www.euronews.net/2008/09/12/euronews-talks-films-and-balkans-with-slavoj-zizek/
> >
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