[Peace-discuss] Will I.P. elect McCain?

[Robert Naiman]

When was the meeting where it was decided that "the Left" doesn't
support affirmative action? Was there a meeting notice? I must have
missed it.

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 5:56 AM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> "Affirmative action" is at best a stop-gap that risks substituting the
> pursuit of diversity for the pursuit of equality.  The latter is the Left
> position. --CGE
>
> Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
>>
>> The fact that a ban on affirmative action has never lost makes me question
>> the stats that say the electorate is to the left of the government. Terrible
>> news, terrible for all of us if the prediction holds true.
>>  --Jenifer
>>
>> --- On *Fri, 8/1/08, C. G. Estabrook /<galliher at uiuc.edu>/* wrote:
>>
>>    From: C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu>
>>    Subject: [Peace-discuss] Will I.P. elect McCain?
>>    To: "peace-discuss" <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
>>    Date: Friday, August 1, 2008, 7:43 PM
>>
>>    "On Sunday, McCain came out in favor of an Arizona civil rights
>> initiative
>>    that    would outlaw any state discrimination either for or against
>> folks, based on    race, gender or national origin. Obama said he was
>> 'disappointed' with
>>    McCain    and told UNITY he favors affirmative action 'when properly
>> structured.'
>>
>>    "The Arizona referendum banning preferential treatment based on race is
>>    also on    the ballot in the swing state of Colorado. It won in
>> California in 1996, in    Washington in 2000 and in Michigan in the great
>> Democratic sweep of 2006. It
>>    has    never lost, and may just win McCain Colorado, and with it the
>> nation."
>>
>>    There would be a certain paradox in McCain's becoming president as a
>> result
>>    of    identity politics -- which begins with the notion that the
>> categories of
>>    gender,    race and class are fixed.
>>
>>    Self-described progressives in the last generation have replaced
>> campaigns    against economic inequality with campaigns against
>> discrimination within    economic groups -- as inequality increased.  Thus
>> it was considered a victory
>>    to    get women into West Point or people of color onto the board of
>> General Electric
>>
>>    (instead of abolishing those institutions).
>>
>>    The old Left goals were quietly abandoned with the onslaught of
>> Neoliberalism,    thirty years ago.  Redistribution was shelved in favor of
>>    "recognition." (It's    true that a few, like M.L. King, went the other
>> way, but they were marginalized
>>
>>    -- with prejudice, in his case.)
>>
>>    Some people noticed what was going on: see, e.g., Walter Benn Michaels'
>>    "The    Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and
>> Ignore
>>    Inequality"    (2006).  But a President McCain would be a rather large
>> chicken come home to    roost.  --CGE
>>
>>
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