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> It's multiculturalism's fault that the US has never had a black president.
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>wrote:
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> It's multiculturalism's fault that the US has never had a black president.
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> --- On Tue, 3/31/09, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > Carrol
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> > Dennis Claxton wrote:
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> > > 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."
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> http://www.euronews.net/2008/09/12/euronews-talks-films-and-balkans-with-slavoj-zizek/
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