On Oct 8, 2009, at 8:44 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> after he spends considerable time complaining that people think that
> racism is an individual level problem and thinking like that gets
> extended to class, which causes a big problem -- the diversity problem
> -- because we think class inequality is about individual behavior,
> yeah it's kind of moronic that he believes that, as an english
> professor with a family income of maybe 250k, he's part of the
> problem.
It's not moronic. It's a reflection of the pay scale in the American economy, where adjuncts subsist on crumbs and star profs are at the 97th percentile of the income distribution. It's a systemic issue, not a personal one.