[lbo-talk] mayor of Champaign: Obama not an American

[Vicki White]

On 4/18/10, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Surely, I should have thought of this, in these specific terms, earlier
> but,
> pedagogically (am I masturbating, commas?), this note made clear how much
> these kinds of instances and beliefs are treated as if they are discrete
> elements of individuals opinions, isolated statements not associated with
> overlapping networks of creepy thought.  This creep doesn't only doubt
> Obama's citizenship, doubting Obama's citizenship is of a piece with a raft
> of other creepiness.
> I think I am so accustomed to seeing the questioning of Obama's citizenship
> as part and parcel of a raft of other equally creepy and unfounded
> perspectives that I probably (at least, too often) address such issues in
> my
> classes in a manner which only implicitly makes such connections... and, by
> not making the connections explicit and speaking in "We all know that this
> means" kinds of tones that don't often enough explicitly make the
> connections for my students, reinforce their perception that sociology and
> politics are largely about pointing out the ways that discrete individuals
> have discrete differences of opinion rather than systematically different
> perspectives variously rooted in unequally developed logical and empirical
> foundations and arguments... and that I am just a liberal, the other person
> is just a conservative and that's all there is to it.  Damn.
> I know I can't do everything all the time in my teaching but hopefully
> serves as a periodic corrective to my own, unintended, contradictions as a
> professor.
> A
>
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>  Ok, so he is a total creep. Funny how the questioning of Obama's
>> citizenship is a pretty reliable guide to general creepiness.
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