Re: AUT: "classism"

[Michael Pugliese <debsian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Exactly my point. How much change is effected by this American penchant to
think that how and what one says can alter power relationships based on the
familiar material/political etc.ground. Not that I want people to be "nasty"
(althogh the "civility" crusade of communitarian liberals is annoying) but
evasive discourses like PC occlude what and how the dominated get screwed
over.
                                      Michael Pugliese

----- Original Message -----
From: Harald Beyer-Arnesen <haraldba@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <aut-op-sy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 25, 1999 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: AUT: "classism"


> 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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