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--- On Sun, 4/18/10, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] mayor of Champaign: Obama not an American
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Sunday, April 18, 2010, 9:33 AM
> 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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