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31936 Horowitz/Reparations for slavery -- rank: 1000

Art McGee wrote: >Yes, and Reed, as with so many other things, is in the >microscopic minority with his view. On this issue, he >is ignorant, and if "whiteness" is defined by your >disconnectedness from "Blackness," ala Clarence >Thomas, well... Is "blackness" defined ideologically? Since about 90% of black Americans voted for Gore, is a Gore vote part of the ideological test? Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 7 12:36:52 PST 2001

31937 farewell to academe (cont.) -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an address oddity] From: "Dorkin, Eric" <EDorkin at jenner.com> To: "'lbo-talk at lists.panix.com'" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: RE: farewell to academe Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 13:45:22 -0600 The country is more conservative because of the successful liberal critique of tradition and inherited legitimacy. By debunking much of the heretofore shared ideology and culture as decidely sexsit, racist, etc., we have left the world full of indepen ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 7 11:51:08 PST 2001

31938 Bush-GOP to Wipe Out Ergonomic Protections for Workers -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I know folks want to find every way possible to blame the Dems for what is >coming down because Bush was elected President, but the reality is that >Nader did help contribute to rolling back the most important OSHA >protections for workers in a generation, just as his campaign helped remove >the veto for the bankruptcy bill about to be passed, and just as it >contributed to the cutoff of family planning funds globally. No, that was Gore. He's the one who r ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 7 10:58:25 PST 2001

31939 Muppets (was Re: BK on Identity) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Discussion on race & class tends to deteriorate when anecdotal >muppets (my black neighbor, my black friend, etc.) appear. Let's >stick to exploitation & other structural oppressions instead as you >argued yourself. But "exploitation and other structural oppressions" shape consciousness and behavior. There seem to be racism and sexism in your world, but no actual racists and sexists. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 7 10:53:47 PST 2001

31940 BK on Identity -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> >> >> If you say that white workers (and male workers) as a group gain from >> racism (or sexism) - how is that locating racism (or sexism) in the >> individual? It's an advantage gained (if it is) by membership in the >> group, and maintaining the advantage requires maintaining the group's >> identity. >> > >But white workers don't exist as a group. The assumption that there is >s ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 7 10:33:54 PST 2001

31941 Exploitation (was Re: BK on Identity) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >>yes, i'm frustrated because trying to talk about structural >>oppression is like banging your head against the wall and i see the >>same problems on LBO -- people are much more interested in locating >>racism solely in the individual, etc. the whole B&K on identity >>thread was pretty clear evidence of that, to me. >> >>kelley > >I agree, and it is also frustrating when _leftists_ cannot or refuse >to make an analy ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 7 10:24:50 PST 2001

31942 Fwd: {FP} Owens to make statement on WBAI to Congress!!! -- rank: 1000

http://www.newsday.com/news/daily/wbai307.htm WBAI Spat In Congress Rep. upset about being cut off during interview by Peter Goodman Staff Writer The bitter fight over control of listener-sponsored WBAI/99.5 FM is about to spill onto the floor of Congress. Saying he was "outraged" over having been cut off the air during a live broadcast, Rep. Major Owens (D-Brooklyn) described the current management of the station as resembling "some totalitarian country where some great minister ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 7 10:19:53 PST 2001

31943 Max S on Jesse V -- rank: 1000

Someone asked for Max Sawicky's comments on Jesse Ventura's tax scheme. >In general centralizing revenue systems >and broadening tax bases are good things, >IMO. Sales taxes tend to exclude the >sort of services purchased disproportionately >by the non-poor, so broader sales taxes are >probably more progressive, not less. Taxing >internet related is an important political >statement, given the evolving sacred cow >aspect of electronic commerce. > >Whether the o ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 7 06:29:18 PST 2001

31944 BK on Identity -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >yes, i'm frustrated because trying to talk about structural >oppression is like banging your head against the wall and i see the >same problems on LBO -- people are much more interested in locating >racism solely in the individual, etc. the whole B&K on identity >thread was pretty clear evidence of that, to me. If you say that white workers (and male workers) as a group gain from racism (or sexism) - how is that locating racism (or sexism) in the individual? It ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 7 06:32:17 PST 2001

31945 apster-Nay -- rank: 1000

Tuesday March 6 8:08 PM ET Aimster says Pig Latin code can circumvent Napster injunction NEW YORK (Reuters) - Programmers at the file-sharing firm Aimster said Tuesday they had found a disarmingly simple way for Napster (news - web sites) users to avoid recent restrictions imposed on the service by a federal judge: an encryption scheme based on Pig Latin. Aimster, whose software lets users trade files by piggybacking on instant message networks, released the free Aimster Pig Encoder program Sund ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 6 18:38:52 PST 2001

31946 happy birthday Mr Chairman -- rank: 1000

CNBC anchor Sue Herera just mwah'd a happy birthday to Alan Greenspan, his 75th. That was the climax to her banter with co-anchor Ron Insana on how great AG looks, no surprise given the frequency with which he plays tennis and even gets in the occasional round of golf. Earlier in her career, Herera distinguished herself by introducing the late Ed Hart, credit analyst at the late FNN, as "the flasher of Marina del Rey." Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 6 16:34:55 PST 2001

31947 fired for performing abortion -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - March 6, 2001 U. of Nebraska Professor Who Performed Abortion at Campus Clinic Resigns Under Pressure By KATHERINE S. MANGAN A professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center who performed an abortion in a university-owned clinic resigned this month after university officials threatened to fire him. Meryl Severson, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, handed in his resignation this month after a meeting of the university's Board ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 6 07:48:33 PST 2001

31948 raging against RATM -- rank: 1000

[from today's FuckedCompany.com sporadic] I love my chicken kentucky fried Rumor has it that the e-tail home of pinko-rockers Rage Against the Machine, among others, just handed out yet another round of pink slips. Maybe the fired workers can get work polishing the platinum records of all the anti-establishment millionaire rock stars whose greed for internet IPO bucks helped inflate this fucked balloon that's about to pop. Company: ARTISTdirect Points: 178

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Date:	Tue Mar 6 07:51:15 PST 2001

31949 Beyond Face Value -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of attached html code - please, no html! no attachments! nothing but text, plain text! - the site is devoted to images of slaves/slavery on Confederate currency] Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 10:49:41 -0500 From: Christopher Rhoades Dykema <crdbronx at erols.com> Check out this extremely interesting site. Christopher Rhoades Dykema <http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/BeyondFaceValue/>

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Date:	Tue Mar 6 08:04:17 PST 2001

31950 another bailout skeptic -- rank: 1000

[For what it's worth, the purged former chief economist of the World Bank, Joe Stiglitz, believes that they'll come around in an actual crisis and fire up the bailout machinery.] Washington Post - March 6, 2001 IMF Critic Named To Treasury Post Paul Blustein Kenneth W. Dam, a law professor and former top State Department official, will be nominated to become deputy secretary of the Treasury, the White House announced yesterday. Dam, 68, has associated himself with some tough criticism of the Int ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 6 07:21:56 PST 2001