This just gets back to points I made in another essay...I would posit we're not dealing with Marxism as much as we're dealing with a variation on Nazism. I say this because of the race-essentialist focus of so much of this stuff. It's not about status...it's about the color of your skin and assumed traits associated with it. Calling them…
This just gets back to points I made in another essay...I would posit we're not dealing with Marxism as much as we're dealing with a variation on Nazism. I say this because of the race-essentialist focus of so much of this stuff. It's not about status...it's about the color of your skin and assumed traits associated with it. Calling them Marxists gives them a certain veneer of respectability (at least in certain quarters) I don't think they deserve.
What disturbs me is that our education standards have fallen so far that even the teachers parroting this stuff don't seem to understand what they're saying. All this kind of stuff does is further the "othering" that's essential for any race-essentialist dogma to work.
That said, this is a valuable essay making points that should be circulated. Sadly, I doubt they will be.
This just gets back to points I made in another essay...I would posit we're not dealing with Marxism as much as we're dealing with a variation on Nazism. I say this because of the race-essentialist focus of so much of this stuff. It's not about status...it's about the color of your skin and assumed traits associated with it. Calling them Marxists gives them a certain veneer of respectability (at least in certain quarters) I don't think they deserve.
What disturbs me is that our education standards have fallen so far that even the teachers parroting this stuff don't seem to understand what they're saying. All this kind of stuff does is further the "othering" that's essential for any race-essentialist dogma to work.
That said, this is a valuable essay making points that should be circulated. Sadly, I doubt they will be.