Dan Minette wrote:
>
> ----- 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.
Nope. (although i have heard people advance racist notions for being
anti-Communist. but since communism as practiced by every communist
government to date involves unjust and inaccurate labeling of
individuals those various governments themselves shade towards
racism, in essence if not in technicality.)
> is it anti-German, since Marx and Engle were German?
Nope. Nor is it anti-Jewish.
> 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.
i could have tossed in questions comparing his reaction to citizens
of the Republic of China to citizens of the People's Republic of
China - but since it seemed likely that his remark was intended to be
seen as anti-Communist i thought i would focus on 'being
anti-Communist is not being racist' angle of things.
> Or, are you advocating the dictatorship of the proleatariat and a republic
> as equally valid cultural and political expressions?
<chuckle> now, how did you come up with that as a supposition? the
various governments that have liked to say they were the dictatorship
of the proletariat are not equal in validity as cultural or political
expressions to those who have liked to refer to themselves as
republics (or to those whom political scientists call republics).
cheers,
christopher
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Christopher Gwyn
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