i wonder why no one gets in a huff over anti-sexism?
At 11:42 AM 1/15/2010, Carrol Cox wrote:
>"Anati-racism" is a generalization, not an abstraction. That is, no one
>fights racism; rather, people attack specific racist practices or
>institutions. "Anti-racism" is merely a convenient general label for
>those struggles.
>
>On the other hand, anti-capitalism is an abstracction rather than merely
>a generalization. That is why itmakes sense to have an anti-capitalist
>demo (without specification of what that means) but does not make sense
>to have an Anti-racist demonstration (and no one ever has). Or when they
>do pretend to have one, as in the annual Not In Our Town rally started
>here during the period of church burnings, they are hollow at the core
>and soon grow boring.
>
>Carrol
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