Damn it Chris, don't you start sounding sensible! Yes, opportunity - but we don't all get the opportunity to go to "pubic" (no typo) schools or Russell Group, Oxbridge or Poison Ivy League universities and become parrots of what is taught there. Plus the great opportunity to be bullied by maths teachers until 18 for autistic kids who can perceive the difference between a circle and oblong isn't. We have the ideology of meritocracy all wrong and to such an extent that weasel Blair actually quoted a book by Michael Young criticising the whole shebang as though it said equality of opportunity to play for Manchester United for the wheelchair disabled must produce fair outcomes.
Come on Gabbs -"fess up country girl" - what new ideologies are there down the rabbit hole. I know we have to maintain undercover cover - but what might be a better direction not consumed in the gaze of the blue eye and the pheromones of the slaver ant? How do we get through the Fourth Wall? Wait for you to deal 'caste' cards at a party with the Mad Hatter? I love what some of your sweet nothings (curses now we'll need a new cover), but deconstruction is to reconstruct, not tell everyone they smell and should use Lifeboy carbolic. On could come to think you work for a cosmetic company, like one of the old right wing fascists of the Cagoule. And there was me thinking we'd smuggle medical supplies to the Republic, not sabotage their aircraft to save the future for L'Oreal and women who won't swing from trees because of untreated armpit odour. Watch some George Carlin and work out we already know we are the problem and are waiting for you to open up the problematic, like the Guter-Mensch test-passer we already know you won't let us make you in our patronising desires for good ole country girls. Babies are not born racist gentlemen, though some have the silver spoon of its instrumentality in their mouths pretty early. All cultures get ethnocentric. Even Freud noticed, when not curing frigidity with nose pliers, that the best individuals form the best societies that produce the best individuals - which rather screws anyone born a baby not in the best society in circular oppression of opportunity-nots. Don't start knocking out silver spoons for all Allan - it's a metaphor and this is a low budget presentation as we weren't born with any.in the inescapable circles of privilege. FIFA, run by some corrupt German step-ladder from behind Swiss secrecy laws, has an anti-racist policy that builds stadia in Qatar on the dead bodies of Nepalese indentured kafala workers. Sure there's the equality bit that the overpaid millionaire wimps licking a beach ball in a wuss replica of the game my size-nines once graced in mud and rain kicking a soggy pig's bladder, may all die of heat exhaustion too. Sure, Tottenham Hotspur fans may get it in the neck for speech crime chanting in which they refer to themselves as Yids, but then they give a World Cup to Russia and advise black fans not to travel. What would we need to change to bring about more genuine equality? I would say, for instance, that the feminisation of management just changes the sex of those whipping the slaves. I don't really give a monkey's about the sex or colour of the overseers. Slavery in history knew few colour divisions. Slavers were black (the Dahomey). brown (the Crimean Tartars), Jewish (Rhadamantine), European and slaves were just those not protected from slaving bastards as in the 'harvesting of the Russian Steppe' and the southern coast of Ireland and England. Slaves didn't get reparation, the owners did. At university colleagues are now more ethnically diverse, but most of the cleaners are Asian, as are the taxi drivers waiting to help me finish my journey if it's raining. We have massive unemployment. I'd hazard a guess, the England cricket team is an example of a hidden group of a lower opportunity group of poor males. We import skills, so we are told - as we build huge youth unemployment in our indigenous culture (groups too dumb to be taxi drivers?) - and who develops what back home where the skills are paid for? There are clearly arguments we are not having on 'race'. Can we set up the bones and flesh them out? On Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 7:08:19 PM UTC, Chris Jenkins wrote: > > Inheritance is one facet of institutionalized racism; it's not about the > overt slurs and segregated dining, it's about the segregation of > opportunity, and the enforced sense of otherness. > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 6:36 AM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Martin Luther King is in our thoughts at this time of year. I've never >> been able to hack racism, yet feel there is little honest discussion of the >> matter. It is still in place all over the world, though in the UK it is >> not as obvious as in my youth and there have been improvements. I have two >> problems in mind: >> >> 1. The situation is rarely viewed from the perspective of poor indigenous >> people suffering housing problems, work and wage pressures - now including >> many ethnic minorities >> 2. The meritocracy system we have is based on a flawed concept and is >> easily cheated by educational advantages, inheritance and class-based >> networking. >> >> Few here are now openly race prejudiced, yet it remains easy to see many >> problems remain. I won't be watching either of the next two soccer world >> cups because they are in profoundly racist countries, but most don't care >> enough to boycott such. Any views out there? >> >> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> ""Minds Eye"" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
