It's important to remember, Cyclone, that you're essentially describing a social 'norm' for Australia, North America and Europe. Actions and epithets of racism, oppression, religious purism and isolationism have been/are present everywhere, and have been/are present at nearly all times in 'history'. These actions and epithets are not exclusive to white males.
Vince Woolums Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [313] Regarding Business > 1> Concepts/words are not neutral, they are contested weapons which social > forces use in struggles for power. There is no such thing as an > "objective"/politically neutral linguistics, and meanings are not static. > This is especially true of a loaded concept like racism. > > 2> From Deleuze and Guattari, A THOUSAND PLATEAUS, CAPITALISM AND > SCHIZOPHRENIA, PP. 469-470 > > "MINORITIES. Ours is becoming the age of minorities. We have seen several > times that minorities are not necessarily defined by the smallness of their > numbers but rather by becoming a line of fluctuation, in other words, by the > gap that seperates them from this or that axiom constituting a redundant > majority... Nonwhites would recieve no adequate expression by becoming a > new yellow or black majority, an infinite denumerable set. What is proper > to the minority is to assert a power of the nondenumerable, even if that > minority is composed of a single member. That is the formula for > multiplicities. Minority as a universal figure, or becoming > everybody/everything. Woman: we all have to become that, whether we are > male or female. Nonwhite: we all have to become that, whether we are white, > yellow, or black." > > 3> In other words, the minority is defined by difference from a NORM, and > that norm in our society exists as the WHITE ADULT MALE. Essential to > institutionalized racism & sexism is the measuring of a person's difference > and Otherness from this norm; it is for that reason impossible for a black > person to be racist in the same way as a white person, because the force of > this norm (and the socio-historical conditions that have given risen to the > norm) is not on their side. On the other hand, it is always possible, even > for a white adult male, to enter into a process of becoming, and through > this process to become something other than the norm. What is at stake here > is Otherness itself, the power to not have a "fixed identity" but rather to > experience life as an infinite journey. And at this point I'd like to say > something controversial: you don't have to BE black to make techno, but one > might say that, musically, you have to become-black in order to make techno, > in otherwords, you have to become part of the tradition of music which comes > out of black culture and speak/sing in a language that is not the language > of the majority. (Of course there are other becomings, becomings-woman, > becomings-animal, becomings-molecular...) a funky African rhythm, sensuous > strings, a bird floating through the heavens, little particles of sound that > hover in the air... > > /cyborg k > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
