[Peace-discuss] Setting the agenda for the intelligentsia

[Stuart Levy]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:51:14AM -0500, John W. wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:33 AM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>wrote:
> 
> Probably explains Samantha Power (she's Irish); maybe Rory Stewart, too
> > (he's Scottish).
> >
> 
> Is it Rory's femaleness you're referring to, Carl, or his minority status as
> a white Scotman?

Maybe his minority status as a Scotsman in the UK.

In Joy Zarembka's book, The Pigment of Your Imagination,
she travels around the world interviewing people about race groups
racial views in different countries.

In Wales, she hears a report of a recent race-related murder,
"but what can you expect?" says the person she's interviewing,
"the man was English."

> 
> 
> > David Green wrote:
> >
> >> I will add the perhaps gratuitous observation that in the era of
> >> post-feminist identity politics, it's not by accident that such grand
> >> ideological marching orders are best given by younger, preferably
> >> long-haired and attractive women, labeled "brilliant," also of minority
> >> identity, who have somehow created the impression that they are most
> >> concerned with what they call genocide. Boring white men just can't quite
> >> maintain order by themselves anymore.
> >>  DG
> >>
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> *From:* C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>
> >> *To:* Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
> >> *Sent:* Sun, October 25, 2009 2:08:18 PM
> >> *Subject:* [Peace-discuss] Setting the agenda for the intelligentsia
> >>
> >> The NYT today publishes a more candid than usual article in its campaign
> >> to set the terms of public discussion of US war policy -- in a way that will
> >> favor that policy.
> >>
> >> "Where Is U.S. Foreign Policy Headed?" appears on the inside back cover of
> >> the book review.  The article -- by a well-known liberal Yale law professor
> >> -- concludes that "It may not be a bad thing that almost no one in foreign
> >> policy circles is proposing anything new." Especially anything like ending
> >> the war.
> >
> >

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