Re: Re: racism

[Rod Hay <rodhay@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Not so new. The separate but equal noise has been around for some time. Read
some of the late nineteenth century imperialist literature of writers like
Rider Haggard.

Rod

Doug Henwood wrote:

> Rod Hay wrote:
>
> >Lou: I think that there are two senses in which the word racism is used.
> >
> >1. A belief that the world's population can be meaningfully divided into
> >groups, based on something called race.
> >2. A belief that based on that division, and an implicit system of
> >values, some of those groups are superior to others.
>
> Though check out Balibar on neo-racism, which holds that "races" or
> "cultures" should be kept separate, though without ever invoking a
> hierarchy of superior and inferior, as with the old kind of racism.
>
> Doug

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