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211 [lbo-talk] Tim Wise wins it (was loses it) -- rank: 1000

On Jul 9, 2013, at 1:12 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > Black Agenda has " taken this on board." I love those guys.

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212 [lbo-talk] Tim Wise wins it (was loses it) -- rank: 1000

On Jul 9, 2013, at 12:01 PM, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote: > (I've wondered whether, since a large part of that nontrivial group are government employees (the Federal government as well as the armed forces were early desegregationists), this isn't wrapped up in the whole "government is too big" trope that conservatives have been brining: get rid of the post office, get rid of the IRS ... maybe they just mean "the government is too *black*" ...?) Yu ...

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213 [lbo-talk] Tim Wise wins it (was loses it) -- rank: 1000

On Jul 9, 2013, at 10:43 AM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote: > A 2010 study reported income inequality up fourfold since the Reagan years. That's not mathematically possible. Measured how? There is now a nontrivial black professional/managerial class. Such a thing barely existed just a generation ago. Not everyone has taken this on board. Doug

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214 [lbo-talk] Tim Wise wins it (was loses it) -- rank: 1000

On Jul 9, 2013, at 10:04 AM, mjs at smithbowen.net wrote: > I'm always puzzled when folks who apparently consider themselves Marxists > talk as if the ruling class couldn't rule without racism -- or, more foolish > still, 'white supremacy', a concept as extinct as the divine right of > kings. Rethinking all the received wisdom about racism might be troublesome. You'd have to read some new stuff, maybe outside the canon, and think. Much better to recite the catechism. It's simpler, an ...

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215 [lbo-talk] Tim Wise wins it (was loses it) -- rank: 1000

On Jul 9, 2013, at 9:33 AM, mjs at smithbowen.net wrote: >> Do u agree that white supremacy is the glue that holds the US class >> system together ? > > Of course not. To the extent that this phrase means anything at > all, it's puerile and cartoonish. I'm reading Shamus Khan's excellent book on St Paul's School, Privilege. The school, once a major institution of the old WASP establishment, has "diversified" itself enormously over the last generation. Khan, the son ...

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216 [lbo-talk] Tim Wise wins it -- rank: 1000

On Jul 9, 2013, at 8:28 AM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote: > http://www.hoover.org/fellows/by-title/media-fellows/2011 > > William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellows by year > Name Affiliation Dates > Liza Featherstone The Nation May 23 27, 2011 > Doug Henwood The Nation May 23 27, 2011 yup, that's us - had lots of fun! - got paid a lot for doing nothing - if only the left had the same perks this isn't a secret, you know

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217 [lbo-talk] Tim Wise wins it (was loses it) -- rank: 1000

On Jul 8, 2013, at 7:13 PM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote: > Between Tim Wise and Joseph Catron, Wise has the best hand. How do you feel about Wise speaking at a Teach for America training? Doug

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218 [lbo-talk] Interview with Alan Finlayson -- rank: 1000

On Jul 5, 2013, at 3:55 AM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: > But I am skeptical about the connections he makes between Occupy and Bonoism. I'm also not convinced of the extent to which the creativity of the entrepreneur is really meant to be extended to the general population. Not in reality, but the ideology of the present is that we're all our own little businesses, moving from opportunity to opportunity. Security is for wimps. And the skepticism about/hostility to the state ...

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219 [lbo-talk] Anger at suicide of US internet activist -- rank: 1000

On Jan 14, 2013, at 8:46 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote: > http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/01/20131145435451897.html > > [WS:] Another victim of intellectual property rights. And a government gone mad with the fervor to prosecute. Fuckers. Doug

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220 [lbo-talk] Suds for Drugs -- rank: 1000

On Jan 12, 2013, at 11:54 PM, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote: > Tide detergent: Works on tough stains. Can now also be traded for crack > > http://nymag.com/news/features/tide-detergent-drugs-2013-1/ > > The grocery store, located in suburban Bowie, Maryland, had been robbed repeatedly. But in every incident the only products taken were bottles-many, many bottles-of the liquid laundry detergent Tide. "They were losing $10,000 to $15,000 a month, with pe ...

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221 [lbo-talk] Mark Weisbrot: Why Paul Krugman should be President Obama's pick for US treasury secretary -- rank: 1000

On Jan 7, 2013, at 12:47 AM, "Jordan Hayes" <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote: > Doug writes: > >> As Jack Kemp once said ... > > That must be a memory from when you were on the other side :) No, it was from a WSJ article in the 90s. I love the quote.

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222 [lbo-talk] Mark Weisbrot: Why Paul Krugman should be President Obama's pick for US treasury secretary -- rank: 1000

On Jan 5, 2013, at 4:35 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand at gmail.com> wrote: > Ha! You're such compromisers. Why not Doug Henwood as Treasury Secretary? > > Doug, how do your Wall Street credentials match up to those of Jack Lew, Erskine Bowles, Bob Altman, and Larry Fink? Terribly! I don't get these campaigns. There's no fucking way Obama would consider Krugman for a nanosecond. Why waste the time? Is it some degenerated Trot "impossible demands" strategy? Then why bother wi ...

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223 [lbo-talk] Chewing Gum -- rank: 1000

On Feb 27, 2013, at 1:45 PM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote: > Emerson, that fatuous philistine, Them's fighting words, dude.

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224 [lbo-talk] Graber on consensus -- rank: 1000

On Feb 27, 2013, at 12:49 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote: > Having read Graber's book "Direct Action" it is > hard to escape a conclusion that a great deal of these folks are > either hopelessly juvenile or suffering from affective disorders that > impede their social functioning. Truer than you even imagined.

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225 [lbo-talk] Graber on consensus -- rank: 1000

On Feb 26, 2013, at 5:25 PM, Bill Bartlett <william7 at aapt.net.au> wrote: > It is true that consensus makes it harder to get the outcome you want, because that is the very idea. Rather than simply ride roughshod over objections of minorities, you would need to convince them to go along. The presumption of consensus advocates is that this is a good thing on balance, because of the advantages I mentioned before. > > Presumably, advocates of majority rule think that it is a good th ...

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