[PEN-L:8281] Re: The Theory of Cultural Racism (posted originally to leninist-international mail-list)

[Rod Hay <rodhay@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is just so much crap that it is hard to believe that someone could put
it forward seriously. We have a crime without a perpetrator. Without
evidence. Without a trial. But everyone accused is guilty because they
belong to a certain group. It does not matter what they have done, they are
guilty. And what is the penalty? Grovelling, accepting uncritical every
thing that is said. Why when there is no release from guilt? Perhaps it is
too liberal of me to insist that individuals are responsible for their own
actions. If anyone on this list has said or done anything racist point it
out. Don't make accusation without evidence. It is stupid, divisive,
irresponsible and counterproductive.

Cultural differences are not racism.

Others besides whites can be racists. One of the most vicious racist
episodes I have witness was perpetrated by a person of chinese descent on
one of Malayasian descent.

Does any one remember Richard Prior's attack on the chinese in his concert
film?

Was the attack on Korean shopkeepers during the riots in Los Angeles not
racist?


----Original Message Follows----
From: Louis Proyect

Reprinted from Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography 23(1992): 289 299.

The Theory of Cultural Racism

By J. M. Blaut, Department of Geography University of Illinois at Chicago

i. Theory and Practice

Very few academics these days consider themselves to be racists, and
calling someone a racist is deeply offensive. Yet racism in the
universities is just as pervasive, just as dangerous, as it was a
generation ago. Nowadays we seem to have a lot of racism but very few
racists. How do you explain this paradox?



Rod Hay
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