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<div style="direction:ltr; font-family:Tahoma; color:#000000; font-size:10pt">No brief on these matters for Tim Wise and I've never, minus 15 minutes of love for Harold Washington, supported a Democrat in my life, least of all these ones now on offer. (Nor
it seems necessary to add in this context, a Republican). But the Benn Michaels nonsense that talk about white supremacy is now mainly just a prop for neoliberalism is ridiculous on its face. E.G.<br>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/12-2" target="_blank">http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/12-2</a><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [sftalk] The seduction of Neoliberal "anti-racism"<br>
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<p>Champaign-Urbana's local anti-war group, AWARE, has been from its founding a dozen years ago concerned with racism (AWARE = Anti-war Anti-racism Effort), principally for three reasons:<br>
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[1] the overt and covert employment of racism - anti-Arab, anti-Iranian, and anti-Muslim [sic] - by the Bush-Obama administration in order to build support within the US public for imperial war in the 'Greater Middle East';
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[2] US support for Israel, a state based on racism, as its "cop on the beat" in the generations-long American attempt to dominate Mideast energy resources; and
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[3] the US economic draft ("volunteer army") - instituted after the revolt of the US conscript army in Vietnam - which coerces into a criminal war a disproportionate number of non-white Americans.<br>
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But the rise in the 1970s of 'Identity Politics' - parallel to and connected with Neoliberalism, the counter-attack by the 1% on social progress in the US from the New Deal to 'the Sixties' - has led today to a reactionary anti-racism. Here John Halle anatomizes
a few of its practitioners - race-fakers who might be compared to the labor-fakers of the Great Depression:<br>
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<<a href="http://lbo-news.com/2013/07/12/1938/#comment-9643" target="_blank">http://lbo-news.com/2013/07/12/1938/#comment-9643</a>>.<br>
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With thanks to Doug Henwood's LBO News. --CGE</p>
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