[lbo-talk] Lincoln Gordon, he dead

[Joseph Catron]

The more I think about it, the more I dislike the linguistic construction "a
racist." Do any of us really believe that it's possible to be non-racist
within a certain social relationship, or racist outside of it? So why this
focus on the individual, as if the purity of Conrad's soul counted for much
of anything? I propose that this is the mirror image of that periodic
whipping boy of the list, the working class as defined through identity
politics: the racist as defined through identity politics.

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:

Any usage of the term "racism" or "racist" not accompanied by a clear
> concise definition makes the effusion of which it is part unworthy of
> notice.
>

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