[PEN-L:8282] Re: Re: The Theory of Cultural Racism (posted originally to leninist-internationalmail-list)

["Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Calm down, you'd hurt yourself.

Rod Hay wrote:

> 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
> rodhay@xxxxxxxxxxx
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