[lbo-talk] Michaels, Against Diversity

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Oct 6 09:47:04 PDT 2009


Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> On Oct 5, 2009, at 3:28 PM, Alan Rudy wrote:
>
> > I don't know who these people are.
>
> This post to PEN-L, by one called "raghu," came in just moments after
> yours:
>
> > I agree with Louis: the best signature of modern day right-wing
> > extremists is racism, white (or some national) supremacism and
> > xenophobia manifested in different ways. The easiest way to identify a
> > right-wing group is to see if they are blaming minorities, immigrants
> > and foreigners for everything that's wrong with the world.
>

(a) One person. Where is the evidence that this is representative of some significant AND identifable social group?

(b) He is talking about how to identify (quickly and easily) right-wing groups. Nothing he says on that topic can possibly be relevant to any of the topics raised here.

(c) As a way of identifying right-wing groups, he is probably correct. And he does not go beyond that.

You seem to still be throwing up dust to obscure what the argument is actually about here.

Carrol



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