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> On Oct 8, 2009, at 8:44 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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>
Then why does he say that he's part of it, at a personal level, and why did
you suggest that that move was utterly non-problematic? More than that,
this is probably the least important argument Shag made in that post...