[lbo-talk] Michaels, Against Diversity

[Alan Rudy]

I guess I'll wait for the transcript to be sure.  But, he sounded to me to
be saying that all racial (or gender or sexual) politics were the politics
of diversity, which he strongly suggested are effectively neoliberal, and
that neoliberals are behind the embrace of elite immigration and illegal
immigration... transitively...
And if all race-driven politics are effectively serving neoliberalism then
people working with the truly disadvantages along racial lines are
implicitly cozying up to neoliberalism by impeding the "real" politics that
needs to be done.
But, I'd need the transcript to be sure.  At the same time, I think these
things are read-in-able because of his discursive strategy - caveats to get
him off the hook and lack of nuance to drive home the point.
In the end, I guess, I just don't see how a political program to deal with
the disproportionality of blacks in poverty and in jail could be construed -
by him - as anything other than a neoliberal-like distraction from more real
class politics...

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


>
> On Oct 5, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Alan Rudy wrote:
>
>  How is saying that "we" all embrace the neoliberal immigration agenda
>> really
>> helping?
>> How is saying that folks working with the "truly disadvantaged" - the
>> staggeringly disproportionately poor and imprisoned communities of color -
>> are cozying up to neoliberals going to bring anyone to the post-class
>> politics class analysis side of things?
>>
>
> Those would be rather terrible things to say. Did he actually say them?
>
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Alan P. Rudy
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