[lbo-talk] I, We or They

[shag carpet bomb]

At 11:08 AM 8/25/2011, Carrol Cox wrote:
>Quite often in many different contexts, but I am concerned oly with this 
>list, one hears the phrases "too many leftists," "so many leftists," etc.
>
> From what vantage point, what perspective, what relationship to left 
> qctivity are these phrases used? How do they define the writer's vantage point.
>
>It seems to me that such phrases, even when accurate, separate the speaker 
>from "the left" and implicitly claim a vantage point Outside of and 
>superior to that of those wh are "in" the left. In other words, such 
>phrases label the writer as an "I" in a superior (objective?) position 
>passing judgment on "them."
>
>I find this position disturbing.

yeah. you actually said it better than I did. thanks.


>Carrol