On 2013-07-11, at 5:24 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Jul 11, 2013, at 5:15 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Racism Is Retro school
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> And who are the members of this alleged school?
Well, since you ask, Michael Smith ("I find harping about racism (or, worse yet, 'structural racism') so tiresome and retro") and Wojtek ("This discussion had relevance some 70 to 50 years ago, but it is becoming irrelevant today"), and I thought yourself, at least initially ("This notion of white supremacy is way way out of date - which, of course, doesn't stop people from robotically reciting it as if nothing has changed since 1957") though you seem to have taken some distance from that view since then. That's, after all, what sparked this discussion about white supremacy, white superiority, white skin privilege, white racism - call it what you will, but all of which are generally understood to mean the same thing.