Re: AUT: "classism"

[Harald Beyer-Arnesen <haraldba@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Pugliese writes:

        Bad enough when priviledged white folk put this over, but
        when well off "people of color" pull the "classist" line
        my eyes roll over.(BTW, my grandmother still says "colored
        people" how much progress was made before this PC term was
        appropriated from the New Left by Corporate Diversity
        consultants, and how much after? Rhetorical question, you
        say? Well when the material and political ground is
        forsaken for this "safer" approach all ?'s decend to the
        rhetorical.
                All this makes me sound like a unreconstructed
        Old Left orthodox Marxist, before Gramsci and Lacan and
        the deconstructionists highlighted ideology and its role
        in supporting the power of the dominant class, but for
        now so be it.


I could not care less if people say "people of color", "colored
people", black, negro (a distinction that would be lost in
Spanish and Portuguese) Afro-American, African American...  and
so on.

Harald



  in solidarity,
  Harald Beyer-Arnesen
  haraldba@xxxxxxxxx



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