[lbo-talk] Noam Chomsky is losing it

Wojtek S wsoko52 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 10:31:20 PDT 2011


Doug: "Again, what does invoking racism get you that fighting against Israeli policy, for open borders, and against the brutalization of Indians doesn't? And what does putting all these different things under a single category - "racism" - accomplish, other than running the risk of turning it all into a matter of subjectivity?"

[WS:] Give it up, Doug. You cannot win this one with your arguments. It is a fundamental article of faith - like arguing with a Catholic priest that the pope is not infallible or the Holy Trinity is a social construct.

Wojtek

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Sep 28, 2011, at 1:05 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:
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>> Palestine, immigration, ongoing crimes against
>> indigenous North Americans?
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> Again, what does invoking racism get you that fighting against Israeli policy, for open borders, and against the brutalization of Indians doesn't? And what does putting all these different things under a single category - "racism" - accomplish, other than running the risk of turning it all into a matter of subjectivity?
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> Doug
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