[Peace-discuss] Blackwashing

[David Green via Peace-discuss]

Brand words that should arouse suspicion:
 
Save Darfur (RIP)
Kony 2012 (RIP)
Human trafficking
Save Our Girls
Whatever Bill Clinton said at Maya Angelou's memorial service
Whatever Michelle Obama said at Maya Angelou's memorial service
Zionists who refer to oppression of Muslim women
 
Whether "rape culture" belongs in this category remains to be seen; it should be for class conscious feminists to analyze the increased mainstream use of this term in the current context, including in our military.
  


On Thursday, June 19, 2014 8:04 AM, C. G. Estabrook <carl at newsfromneptune.com> wrote:
  

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>Are there similarities to the Jacobin debate about feminism, mutatis mutandis? 
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>In each case legitimate concerns are being mobilized through IP as a distraction from class politics.
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>Is there a 'fem-washing,' parallel to blackwashing?  --CGE
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>On Jun 19, 2014, at 7:46 AM, David Green via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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>> Wow. That's an eye opener.
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>> On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 9:46 PM, C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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>> http://blackagendareport.com/content/ta-nehisi-coates-blackwashing-reparations-brand-and-last-refuge-scoundrels
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>> "After five and a half years of the Obama presidency, during which the problems of black America were ignored and in some cases made worse, some of his black enablers and apologists feel the need to get their ghetto passes re-stamped. Wrapping themselves in the reparations brand is their way of asserting fictive allegiance to African Americans along with some imaginary distance from the president. If Wal-Mart and BP pretending to be environmentally responsible is greenwashing, this is blackwashing."
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