My eyes are much worse, & web sites are nightmare, though I can 'conquer' them if there is a strong enough reason.
But when I don't even know the name of the person being cited, and when the purpose of the post is implicit to be immplicit in a juxtaposition rather than in a discursive statement, Fuck it. Carrol > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:pen-l- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Joseph Catron > Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2012 11:15 AM > To: LBO; Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition; Progressive Economics > Subject: [Pen-l] Michael Muhammad Knight in VICE: The Innocence of White > People > > (I usually find a similar "blame Whitey" discourse, when deployed by white > commentators like Tim Wise, insufferably annoying. But for some reason, that I > can't quite put my finger on, this just rings true to me.) > > > > ... The reason for my silence on 9/11 is that I am not only Muslim. I am also > American. I am also white. I am male and heterosexual. However, I am not asked, > as an American, to reflect on the yearly anniversary of our atomic bombs falling > upon Japan, or our countless military interventions throughout the world. There is > no date on the calendar for me, as a white person, to demonstrate that I have > properly reflected on slavery and the generations of inequality and naked white > sadism between the slave era and our own unjust present; we could potentially > have such a day, but often turn it into shallow self-congratulation. As a white > person, I am not asked to consider the wanton murders of young black men by > white cops or white civilians, or the white terrorism of shootings in gurudwaras, as > directly relevant to my identity. Nor do I have a designated anniversary for > reflection, as a straight man, on the horrifying statistics of rape or the ways in > which heterosexism makes this country unsafe for so many. > > As a Muslim, however, people do expect me to show evidence of my soul- > searching over a single event, and I am regularly instructed by popular media to > imagine 9/11 as a cancer within my own self. Journalists ask me about Islams > crisis as though its a private demon with whom I must personally wrestle every > day; meanwhile, my whiteness remains untouched and unchallenged by the > decade of hate crimes that have followed 9/11. Journalists dont often ask whether > white tradition can be reconciled to modern ideals of equality and pluralism, or > whether the straight male community is capable of living peacefully in America. > When it comes to my participation in America, my whiteness and maleness are far > more likely than my Islam to wound others, and thus perhaps more urgently in > need of reform or enlightenment or whatever you say that Islam needs. Again, > this is only if numbers matter ... > > > http://www.vice.com/read/the-innocence-of-white-people > > -- > "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen > lytlað." _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
