[lbo-talk] If only Mitt Romney were a black lesbian

[Dennis Claxton]

Here's Michaels in NLR:

"If, for example, you are looking to promote 
someone as Head of Sales in your company and you 
are choosing between a straight white male and a 
black lesbian, and the latter is in fact a better 
salesperson than the former, racism, sexism and 
homophobia may tell you to choose the straight 
white male but capitalism tells you to go with 
the black lesbian. Which is to say that, even 
though some capitalists may be racist, sexist and 
homophobic, capitalism itself is not."

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My question is if it's true black lesbians would 
get this kind of consideration for head positions 
then why does he have to invent a scenario 
instead of pointing to what, following his logic, 
should be at least a few examples of black 
lesbians running corporate America.  This is from 
the same NLR article where Michaels said that the 
"successes of the struggle against 
discrimination.... have helped to enable the 
increasing gulf between rich and poor."

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"In 1947­seven years before the Supreme Court 
decision in Brown v. Board of Education, sixteen 
years before the publication of Betty Friedan’s 
The Feminine Mystique­the top fifth of American 
wage-earners made 43 per cent of the money earned 
in the us. Today that same quintile gets 50.5 per 
cent. In 1947, the bottom fifth of wage-earners 
got 5 per cent of total income; today it gets 3.4 
per cent. After half a century of anti-racism and 
feminism, the us today is a less equal society 
than was the racist, sexist society of Jim Crow. 
Furthermore, virtually all the growth in 
inequality has taken place since the passage of 
the Civil Rights Act of 1965­which means not only 
that the successes of the struggle against 
discrimination have failed to alleviate 
inequality, but that they have been compatible 
with a radical expansion of it. Indeed, they have 
helped to enable the increasing gulf between rich and poor."

http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2731

And here's some food for thought:

Here's a freeper commenting on some Mormon 
freepers in revolt because Mitt Romney wasn't getting freeper love:

"If only Romney were a black lesbian woman, he would be a lock. LOL "

http://www.first-draft.com/2009/04/today-on-tommy-ts-obsession-with-the-freeperati-mormon-uprising-edition.html

The point is there's a thin line on a slippery slope.... I'm just sayin'.

(I think the use of "black lesbian woman" may 
indicate this freeper has been reading Judith Butler.)