[lbo-talk] the nonsense of public opinion

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Sat Feb 28 21:40:52 PST 2015


As you like it. Keep reading nineteenth-century European texts to bring you up to speed on the specific social relations of 21st-century American society. As Jefferson said, "It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."

On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 12:23 AM, MM <marxmail00 at gmail.com> wrote:


> On 01 Mar 2015, at 6:29 AM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > In
> > neighborhoods that, according to your wisdom, "require extra vigilance,"
> > cops are actually quite likely to excuse themselves from the scenes of
> > minor crimes if reporting them will include a hassle. Anyone who lives
> > there can tell you that.
>
> You’re grasping, Joe. Excusing themselves from the scene of minor crimes
> is not remotely the same thing as avoiding conflict. I’m talking about the
> kind of aggressivee “eyeballing” and petty provocation that black males
> between the ages of… what, maybe 8 and 50?… are confronted with all the
> time. It’s endemic to the culture of policing in America, precisely because
> of the history and dynamics of class and race and policing in America -
> things that you obviously recognise, but don’t seem to have the theoretical
> grounding to apply usefully in interpreting actual events and situations.
> So you end up invoking “evidence” that’s off-point, and lashing out
> defensively about old white men and religion. Maybe lose a bit of the
> attitude.
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