>A lot of this sort of agitation - this piece, Wise, Catalyst - focuses
>on racism on the left.
I didn't get that from this piece. From Wise, yes, but not this. It wasn't concentrating on racism so much as miscommunication or no communication.
>Yeah. If you went to an anti-war march full of middle-class hippies
>and loudly declared it to be somehow lacking in authenticity due to
>the absence of burly "working-class" types, you'd be treated as an
>annoying pest, even a reactionary.
I don't get this either. This wasn't someone going to the march and yelling at participants. It's someone writing about how to get more participants involved.
> But if you instead attributed the lack of authenticity to the
> absence of people of color, somehow you've put your finger on an
> inexcusable failing of the organizers and weeks of workshopping
> would be required to rectify the error.
Let's take another example. If there'd been a little workshipping to rectify this kind of error during the Prop 8 vote in California things would very likely have turned out differently. Instead, you wound up with some misplaced scapegoating of blacks in California for the loss.