[lbo-talk] Check your privilege: Rise of the Post-New Left political vocabulary

[robert wood]

I think its why the concept only works within settings where there is a
common project, and there is trust amongst the people communicating.  It
marks off points where someone might be damaging the creation of a larger
coalition or class identity, but it isn't a very good framework to
understand structures of power, themselves.  Robert Wood

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


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> On Feb 4, 2014, at 8:45 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
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> > On Feb 4, 2014, at 8:42 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> >> On Feb 4, 2014, at 8:36 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
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> >>> I daresay it has; but in a significantly constructive way? At best it
> seems
> >>> to me like diction policing; at worst it's a way of shutting people up.
> >>
> >> It's also an extremely dimensional view of how social power works.
> >
> > The more dimensions the better, I'd've said...?
>
> oops, *one*-dimensional
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