Charles
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> See shag's post below.
>
> She develops wonderfully a thesis I have tried to develop: There is no
> necessary (or even probable) link between intelligence and correct
> political
> understanding. Bush was an intelligent president. All the attacks on his
> intelligence were (I'll use the terrible word) objectively reactionary.
>
> Carrol
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:
> lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]
> > On Behalf Of shag carpet bomb
> > Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 8:43 AM
> > To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org; lbo
> > Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Check your privilege?
> >
> > had anyone figured out why this might be so?
> >
> > It seems very similar to a certain left tendency to be exceedingly angry
> > toward people who aren't on board the leftist clue train. They tend to go
> > on and on about how fat, stupid, lazy, and greedy USers are for instance.
> > If they'd only get a clue and get on board the leftist klew train, all
> our
> > problems would be arighted. Everyone would be fighting the revolution.
> > There's a kind of mean spirited bitterness, a tendency to belitte,
> attack,
> > shame, ridicule with a specific focus on attacking their physical being
> and
> > tastes. It's sort of a "*I* figured it out you lazy fucks, why can't
> you?"
> > sentiment, with the implication being that the people who don't see the
> > light are morally culpable.
> >
> > the tendency seems to assume that getting on board the leftist klewtrain
> is
> > the act of morally righteous individuals.
> >
> > I used to see this hatred and anger from a sect of radical/cultural
> > feminists of the sort where all oppression is rooted first and foremost
> in
> > the sexual domination of women by men. All forms of what they called
> > hierarchy flowed from that basic condition.
> >
> > At any rate, I suspect the problem tends to lie in their tacit theories
> > about how social change works: they tend to see it as something special
> > individuals make happen.
> >
> > This tends to flow out of the tradition of critical race theory, doesn't
> > it? I have read up on it in years, bt I seem to remember that there was a
> > strain of thought where it was expected tat you were supposed to renounce
> > white privilege. For instance, I remember one radical feminist telling us
> > that she married a black man in order to give up white privilege. how
> that
> > worked, I wasn't sure, but she was serious as a heart attack about it and
> > did it as part of some wider 70s countercultural movement with which she
> > was associated for awhile.
>
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