[Fwd: Fw: Wolff on Johnson, _Soul by Soul_]

[Katha Pollitt <kpollitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The absurdity of this post speaks for itself.
You need a nap.
Katha

M A Jones wrote:
>
> What's interesting about the American national psychosis is the way that the
> antebellum South still shapes it: genteel discussions about slavery in the
> presence of the slaves is its hallmark, and continues even here, as we see
> in Katha Pollitt's somewhat mocking references to the fate of Serbian and
> Albanian slaves bought and sold by Nato-sponsored hucksters in exactly the
> same way that antebellum-south slaves were  bought and sold. As Johnson,
> (below) says: "sellers and buyers
> > displayed their "knowledge" of slave bodies, reading them for signs of
> > punishment and disease, extrapolating character traits and physical
> > abilities from their faces, hands, limbs, and breasts, and all the while
> > defining through these acts their own honor, manhood and mastery."
>
> We read the same accounts of contemporary slave-markets in Kosovo, where
> nude girls are demonstrated to purchasers before export to Germany,
> the US, Britain. Are not the 'feminists' who stand by in determined silence,
> simply the 'kapos' of this process? When Katha speaks of 'antiquated
> Serbians' with their silly romantic ideas about defending their womenfolk,
> is this not the apotheosis of collaboration?
>
> Mark Jones
> http://www.egroups.com/group/CrashList
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