Good read, there are many quotable parts. Heres one: On the extreme Right, by contrast, race is a proxy for class. Among the white supremacists, when they speak of race consciousness, defending white people, protesting for equal rights for white people, they actually don’t mean all white people. They don’t mean Wall Street bankers and lawyers, though they are pretty much entirely white and male. They don’t mean white male doctors, or lawyers, or architects, or even engineers. They don’t mean the legions of young white hipster guys, or computer geeks flocking to the Silicon Valley, or the legions of white preppies in their boat shoes and seersucker jackets “interning” at white-shoe law firms in major cities. Not at all. They mean middle-and working-class white people. Race consciousness is actually class consciousness without actually having to “see” class. “Race blindness” leads working-class people to turn right; if they did see class, they’d turn left and make common cause with different races in the same economic class. I think that a lot of these guys have a valid CAUSE for their anger, but the problem is that their target is often off base. Of course, the author addresses that issue and the cognitive dissonance behind it later in the column, which Ill leave to you to read.
Posted on: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:18:12 +0000
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