----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Gwyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 5:17 PM Subject: Re: China > Do I think that his word-choice was influenced by the congruence > between his perception of the People's Republic of China as a > fundamentally different political _system_ (an 'other') and the > culturally supported perception of 'other races and cultures' as > fundamentally different from 'real people'? Yes. I have run into this > sort of 'not racist, but' speech for all of my life and I am pretty > darn tired of it. Is opposing the Communist government of China because it is communist racist. If so, is it anti-German, since Marx and Engle were German? You could have very easily have separated the possibility of John's attitude being racist from his attitude being anti-Communist by asking about his views concerning the people of Taiwan. Or, are you advocating the dictatorship of the proleatariat and a republic as equally valid cultural and political expressions? Dan M.
