tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post4742856360995522824..comments2024-02-20T14:00:41.771-05:00Comments on A Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: Review: States of RaceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-57420958606629653682010-10-04T18:45:32.753-04:002010-10-04T18:45:32.753-04:00Hi again.
Hmmmmm...no, that's not what I was ...Hi again.<br /><br />Hmmmmm...no, that's not what I was saying at all. I think there are a few possible takeaway points for folks with the sorts of privileges with which you and I move through the world, but that we should be bit-players in our own lives is decidedly not one of them.<br /><br />One might be that the kinds of complexity of social relations sketched out in the essays in this Scott Neighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17415106335668233754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-46554503841085465272010-10-04T10:14:31.749-04:002010-10-04T10:14:31.749-04:00Scott,
... between me typing your name and now, m...Scott,<br /><br />... between me typing your name and now, my three year old woke up.<br /><br />very quickly, i was getting the impression that we're not supposed to try to impose a meta-strategy for all these different groups at all, and if we do, it should somehow not come from white males, ... which i reject as i have no intention of being a bit-player in my own life, just i wouldn't thwaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399550285738440669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-41463644977239994142010-10-01T13:40:58.870-04:002010-10-01T13:40:58.870-04:00Scott,
I'll be back!Scott,<br /><br />I'll be back!thwaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399550285738440669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-27408158622684313322010-09-29T22:51:02.602-04:002010-09-29T22:51:02.602-04:00Hi again!
So I've spent some of my few spare ...Hi again!<br /><br />So I've spent some of my few spare moments today trying to figure out the actual political content of our disagreement here, and I'm not sure I understand it.<br /><br />I think we agree that large, vibrant social movements are key to social change.<br /><br />I think we maybe differ on how we think that might happen, but it is very unclear to me how we differ.<br /><Scott Neighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17415106335668233754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-90718923790878895972010-09-29T10:40:41.791-04:002010-09-29T10:40:41.791-04:00Well, if finding something that everybody can agre...Well, if finding something that everybody can agree with, while simultaneously containing nothing that all these diverse groups can find disagreeable isn't going to work, then I've no idea what will.<br /><br />I'm not sure how anything can be accomplished unless people work together.<br /><br />Unless you're worry is that the "lowest common denominator" strategy is thwaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399550285738440669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-65106380421385272262010-09-29T10:22:17.581-04:002010-09-29T10:22:17.581-04:00Hi thawp!
A "general mass-movement that does...Hi thawp!<br /><br />A "general mass-movement that doesn't deny complexity" sounds really good! Like I said, I'm not sure that those of us in the white-dominated North American social movement left are particularly well equipped to help make that happen, at least in some respects, though I know lots of us want to. And certainly there is nothing for us to do but keep acting in Scott Neighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17415106335668233754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-45464781629875800512010-09-29T08:07:05.360-04:002010-09-29T08:07:05.360-04:00http://thwapschoolyard.blogspot.com/2007/02/never-...http://thwapschoolyard.blogspot.com/2007/02/never-ending-battle-for-truth-justice.htmlthwaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399550285738440669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-45543539733483918072010-09-29T08:04:22.456-04:002010-09-29T08:04:22.456-04:00Scott,
I'll acknowledge that I've been th...Scott,<br /><br />I'll acknowledge that I've been the recipient of white, male privilege and that that informs my analysis.<br /><br />At the same time though, I've always tried to advocate for a general mass-movement that doesn't deny complexity and which doesn't demand that the people in that book renounce the identity politics that are important to them and submerge thwaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399550285738440669noreply@blogger.com