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

[Joseph Catron]

I wouldn't say the "nonviolence" this is always silly, or at least equally
silly. I mean, if someone from the US or UK wants to go tell their own damn
government to be nonviolent, I don't have a problem with that, however much
I might or might not expect it to work.

But when Westerners try to impart their "nonviolence" onto the struggles of
people who are resisting the far more substantial violence of said
governments, it smacks of - what, exactly? Perhaps not "privilege"; the
word might be irredeemably corrupted at this point. But something
considerably more obnoxious than a flawed strategy.

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:

Agreed about the silliness of 'nonviolence' but I'm not sure that putting it
> in the context of 'privilege' tells us much about what's wrong with it, or
> where it comes from.

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