On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:53:45 -0500 Doug Henwood <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 29, 2011, at 5:15 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > > > Aren't they *all* racist reactionaries? > > Certainly looks that way to me. At least > > Paul is an anti-war racist reactionary. > > Who'd end Soc Sec & Medicare, and would have > opposed the Civil Rights Act. > > By the way, Obama can be accused of many things, but > racist? Really? THat claim cost Glenn Beck his TV show.
Thank God I don't have a TV show to lose. But I mean it in a somewhat different sense from Beck's. Much virtual ink has been spilled on this list discussing the concept of 'structural racism', which seems strangely to persist in spite of everybody's bien-pensant commitment to 'diversity'. But all the structures that maintain the racism have Obie's unqualified support, from Drug War to high-stakes standardized tests in the schools. The subjunctive mood cuts no ice with me, so what Paul 'would have' done wrt the civil rights act is a chimaera bombinans in vacuo. Let it bite me. I'll never feel it; hypothetical bites don't bleed. Of course Paul will never become President, so what he 'would' do -- or try to do -- about Social Security and Medicare is neither here nor there. To borrow a concept from Carrol Cox, this line of thinking exhibits a confusion of politics and policy. -- -- Michael J. Smith [email protected] http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org http://www.cars-suck.org http://fakesprogress.blogspot.com Any proposition that seems self-evident is almost certainly false. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
