"...my account of the post-1990 activist vocabulary ... will be immediately recognizable, I think, to anyone familiar with the work of Tim Wise, Peggy McIntosh, Melissa Harris-Perry (recently described in The Atlantic as the USA's foremost public intellectual)..."
Babbling nonsense, indeed. --CGE
On Feb 4, 2014, at 4:35 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> I agree about the use of "only." But I stopped reading the article when I
> got to the following:
>
> " It's not so much that the words they use would be unfamiliar. Certainly
> 'privilege' is not a new word, for instance. But these newcomers to the 1970
> Left would have a way of talking about politics and political action that
> would seem strange and off-kilter to the others at the meeting. If one of
> the time travellers told others at the meeting to "check their privilege,"
> it's not that anyone would disagree, exactly. It's that they wouldn't
> understand what was meant, or why it was supposed to be important or
> relevant.
>
> This is babbling nonsense. "Check your privilege" is simple bullshit. Or it
> could be a deliberate attempt to sabotage political discussion.
>
> Carrol
>
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> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Check your privilege: Rise of the Post-New Left
> political vocabulary
>
>
> On Feb 4, 2014, at 12:50 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:
>
>> I'd be interested in hearing how the article is any dumber, or more
>> grossly simplified or New Agey, than the language it reports.
>>
>> If it has flaws or inaccuracies, what are they? Serious question.
>
> Don't expect a meaningful response. Nobody who talks about "class-
> first-and-only leftists" is to be taken any more seriously than those
> (Heinrich groupy) types who attack Marx's crisis theory as "falling-
> rate-of-profit-first-and-only leftism." The word ONLY is where the
> devil's tail always sticks through.
>
>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Eric Beck <ersatzdog at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This article is d-u-m. Grossly simplified, newagey taxonomy. So of
>>> course
>>> it's been seized upon by conservative, class-first-and-only
>>> leftists as
>>> revealing the shortcomings of today's (allegedly) individualist,
>>> therapeutic identitarians. Bleck.
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, February 4, 2014, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> There's lots of interest here for those from the right mileaus. I
>>>> might follow up with some thoughts later, but will start with the
>>>> link
>>>> for now.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
> http://rabble.ca/news/2014/02/check-your-privilege-rise-post-new-left-politi
> cal-vocabulary
>>>>
>
> Shane Mage
>
>
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures.
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos
>
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