[lbo-talk] more "who"

shag carpet bomb shag at cleandraws.com
Mon Nov 2 04:03:59 PST 2009


At 05:07 PM 11/1/2009, Michael Pollak wrote:
>His other point, IIUC, which follows from this, is that if most college
>kids come away thinking the paramount goal is gender and racial equality,
>they'll decide it makes more sense to join the capitalists than oppose
>them. And they'll be right.
>
>Michael

because college kids would naturally learn to oppose capitalism in college if it weren't for big bad diversity!

i will write next week about another book i'm reading, about schools in Raleigh, NC. Apparently doing the dastardly thing -- treating class as an identity -- is one reason why there are "no bad schools in Raleigh, NC." michaels is worried worried worried that people are now treating class as an identity, just as they treat race. it is bad bad bad. but apparently, at least if you want to stay bound up within liberalism which is, after all, michaels' goal (welfare liberalism) then it actually works to treat class as an identity -- at least in terms of schooling. thus, his argument for equality of opportunity, which would leave schools segregated in terms of race and class, but would throw money at school to equalize funding is, at least in this instance, a policy that failed. the policy that succeeded, treated class as another criteria of diversity.

shag



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