Doug Henwood wrote:
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> Man, I just don't get this. Michaels' point that I think is worth
> making over & over is that the enlightened wing of the bourgeoisie is
> totally on board with diversity, and uses it as a prop to legitimate
> economically. A race- and gender-neutral capitalism, with little else
> changed, is the reigning ideal of the Ford Foundation and much of the
> Dem Party. A lot of "left" discourse still refuses to take this on
> board.
Well, they use every damn thing for the same purpose. I don't get why anyone should be so damn excited about diversity. Everyone who counts (leftists) knew as it was happening that it was mostly a shuck, just as Obama's health bill is mostly a shuck. And each of the few times I entered USU's Multicultural Center I felt a bit creepy. But it's nonsense to get workeed up about it. As I've said several times, the Movement had exhausted its reach. Diversity etc. provided a cover through which a few people became students or faculty or civil serivces staff who wouodn't otherwise. We fought for much more, this is what we got.
You made a mistake and got a nice guy with not much to say on your radio show. It happens. Get overit. EVeryone makes mistakes but not everyone goes to war about it.
Carrol