Re: Barkely's antisematism article

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:43 PM 2/21/01 -0800, you wrote:
> Whether the striver imperfectly adopts
> the demeanor of his betters or whether
> he betters he his betters, he is
> violating the norms of class.

but the point is that ethnic groups have been assigned to different class
positions. Even though class plays a big role, that's a form of racism --
or antisemitism. (BTW, the last is a poor word, since it usually doesn't
refer to bias against Arabs, who are semitic, whereas a lot of Western
European and  North American Jews could hardly be called "semites.")

One of the big problems with this whole field (the study of racism) is that
psychological categories get mixed with economic/sociological ones. Racism
and antisemitism are not just attitudes (which famous economists may or may
not have embraced) but are institutional structures.

An irreverent & irrelevant thought: recently two Dartmouth College
professors were murdered (allegedly by two teenagers). Is profocide a form
of hate crime?

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine