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I wonder how much of the alt-right universe's bizarro views about IS stem from the failure of people on the left to take principled positions on the crisis in Syria. On Thursday, March 31, 2016, Michael Yates via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > What the author says rings true. I have long known of the alternative > universe of which he speaks, where facts don't matter and a crazy mix of > beliefs exist in the same mind. Over the past fifteen years, we have seen a > lot more of this and some of what we have seen I wrote about in my book, > Cheap Motels and a Hotplate: An Economist's Travelogue. I am not sure about > his friends in Austin saying that he didn't know the code when people with > whom he was talking would be saying something sensible and then would toss > in a racist remark. I think that a good many white people assume that you > are a racist if you are white, and would be genuinely shocked if you > disagreed with what they said, much less saying angrily that they were > racists. There is a Facebook page dedicated to those of us who grew up in > the 1950s and 60s, and the ignorant racism expressed there is hard to > believe sometimes. Every time I have called people on this, they react with > incomprehension, and more racism, suggesting that I am some sort of insane > person. Most deny that racism ever existed in our town, which to any > objective observer would sound really loony. See my essay, "Minstrel Show." > One of my classmates, after reading it, said that it was a shame I was such > an unhappy person, who only wanted to criticize. My guess is that there are > a lot of Trump supporters in Ford City, PA. > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com > -- - Amith _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
