[lbo-talk] dox and nonviolence

[Chuck Grimes]

The “inactive-active opposition,” they argue,
“structured the emotional and intellectual response of whites to
photographs of dogs and fire hoses” ( Seeing Through Race: A
Reinterpretation of Civil Rights Photography [Berkeley and Los
Angeles: University of California Press, 2011, p. 119]) and so
regulated both their empathy and their understanding of protest. It is this 
very opposition that Birgeneau complacently repeats, at once narrowing the 
possibilities for activism and obscuring the complexity of the history he 
thinks he honors."

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Nice take down. Birgeneau is the latest incarnation of the slime who run the 
UC system. They argue they have to raise tuition to cover costs, but the 
truth is they could transfer construction project funds and scale way back 
on those developments. The real issue is they can make money on housing 
research labs and institutes, where they charge upwards of 30 percent 
`overhead' fees. Meanwhile it costs money to teach students. It's related to 
the financialization of the economy, where money games are more profitable 
than producing anything.

CG