Carrol Cox tries to pass off his lack of reading comprehension as profound insight. If he had actually bothered reading this discussion, he would have known that the idea of the Princeton (and Yale and other) protesters "standing with Missouri" is one that is disputed by exactly no one. That idea was in fact the explicit starting point of this discussion.
The real question is what exactly does it mean to "stand with Missouri"? Is that unambiguously a good thing? If you want an intelligent take on this, try Corey Robin, not Carrol Cox: http://coreyrobin.com/2015/11/21/what-we-owe-the-students-at-princeton/ TL;DR version: thanks to the Princeton protesters, we are talking about Wilson's repulsive racism, and also about how such ideologies are deeply embedded in Princeton's history. I think he gives the protesters too much credit, but his piece is definitely worth reading. -raghu. On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Maxim Linchits <[email protected]> wrote: > I see that I've been ignorant, but there is so much to me than that > little passage. I'll do work twice as hard to become more aware, and then > I hope we can put this shameful episode behind us. Please understand and > forgive me. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Carrol Cox > Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2015 11:30 PM > To: 'Progressive Economics' <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Princeton protests: misplaced priorities? > > Maxim Linchits writes: > > Great find! It’s a perfect illustration of how American politics has > become completely unhinged from reality. Liberal “anti-racism” is now > essentially the struggle for political correctness, i.e. a war on symbols > rather than substance. What other issues are they working on these days - > writing angry letters in response some insensitive comments by Bill > O’Reilly? Have they concluded their campaign to condemn Kanye West > Halloween costumes? They need to save some of that outrage for real issues. > With many people it seldom gets beyond “I can’t believe what I just heard, > that’s so racist.” This is not a struggle against racism; it’s a struggle > to save your own precious little ears and eyes. [clip] > > ======= > > Maxim writes out of sheer ignorance of how movements beging & grow. > > Every single one of the campus demonstrations, regardless of specific > demands has had one and only one fundamental content: We are with you > Missouri! > > Until you have grasped this you have nothing of interest to say about U.S. > politics at this time. > > Carrol > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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