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2551 Times Article -- rank: 1000

>From today's London Times Newspaper: April 30 1999 OPINION James Heartfield explains why Britain needs neo-Nazis United by a common hatred Could another race war be looming? Bombs are going off in Britain's immigrant communities. Stephen Lawrence's killers still walk the streets. In America teenagers celebrate the birthday of Hitler by slaughtering their classmates. And when Oona King, MP for Tower Hamlets, received hate mail from the extremist group, the White Wolves, threatening a millenn ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Apr 30 00:28:24 PDT 1999

2552 Thatcher quote and competitive sports -- rank: 1000

In message <3728D0FD.80F5CD0C at uniserve.com>, S Pawlett <epawlett at uniserve.com> writes >Yeah, the Thatcher quote is absurd. "There is no such thing as society, there >is >only individuals and their families". If you are going to allow for families >why >not society? As Thatcher quotes go, I rather like this one about Tony Blair: "I'm worried about that young man, he's getting awfully bossy" ! (in Peter Hennessy, the Blair Centre, Public Managem ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Apr 29 18:11:49 PDT 1999

2553 I am not a racist -- rank: 1000

In message <v04011704b34d131bb579@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Isn't there a sense in >which we can call feudal Europe, feudal Tibet, the American South of the >early 19th century, Peru in 1999, classical Athens all class societies? (having just asked 'Who said anything about dehistoricized essences?') In looking at these questions I am thinking about Marx's methodological points about 'production in general': "so-called general conditi ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Apr 28 23:01:28 PDT 1999

2554 Sillygism/ Phony victims of criticism of racism -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.3.32.19990428115013.0130f028 at pop.mindspring.com>, kelley <digloria at mindspring.com> writes >"Despair feeding upon the foregone conclusion >of its phantasmagoria, imperturbably guides man >to the mass abrogation of social laws, and to >theoretical and practical wickedness. In a word, >causes the human backside to prevail in reasoning. >Come, it's my turn to speak. Wickenedness re- >sults, and eyes take on the hue of those of the >dam ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Apr 28 11:29:41 PDT 1999

2555 I am not a racist -- rank: 1000

Reading Doug and Carrol's points about racism I hesitate to trespass on beliefs so fundamental, but nothing ought to be above debate, so forgive me. As a general point it seems to me that both of you are so bewitched by racism that you seem to grant it supernatural powers that rise above mere human history, to become 'all-pervasive' and ever present. (I was reminded of the hymn, 'immortal, invisible God only wise') First on the 'all-pervasiveness' of racism. Carrol and Doug both resist my render ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Apr 28 02:03:21 PDT 1999

2556 Sillygism -- rank: 1000

In message <v0401171db34bdbd88d53@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Jim heartfield wrote: > >>Carrol is a person >> >>Carrol lives in the United States >> >>Carrol is therefore permeated with racism? > >Insofar as you can't have race without racism, it's everywhere James. I >can't speak for the rest of the world, but you can't live in the U.S. and >not be embedded in a racialized social system. Something tha ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Apr 27 16:05:14 PDT 1999

2557 Kosovo debate -- rank: 1000

LM magazine is hosting the first public debate on the war in the Balkans. NATO and Kosovo - a Just war? Tuesday 11 May, 7.30 pm Methodist Central Hall, Storey's Gate, Westminster, London SW1 (nearest underground stations: Westminster or St James's Park) £7/£5 Speakers: Jonathan Freedland (Guardian columnist) and Mark Seddon (Editor of Tribune and member of Labour Party NEC) vs Mick Hume (Editor of LM magazine) and Edward Pearce (Scotsman columnist). -- Jim heartfield

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Apr 27 14:40:05 PDT 1999

2558 law and transgrssion - was Re: Race & Murder -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.6.32.19990426184946.00d5ec90 at jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu>, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> writes >Richard Rubenstein (_The cunning of history : the holocaust and the >American future_ New York: Harper and Row, 1978) convincingly argues that >spontaneous popular riots, such as Kristallnacht, is anti-thetical to >institutionalized repression of minorities, because it "shortcuts" the >control mechanisms of the totalitarian state, i.e. it is an in ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Apr 27 12:34:54 PDT 1999

2559 Sillygism -- rank: 1000

In message <372603EA.43034CD9 at mail.ilstu.edu>, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> writes >X is an event. > >X occurred in the United States. > >X is THEREFORE permeated with racism. Carrol is a person Carrol lives in the United States Carrol is therefore permeated with racism? -- Jim heartfield

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Apr 27 12:23:49 PDT 1999

2560 Race & Murder -- rank: 1000

Charles' confidence that he is in the right is impervious to all evidence to the contrary. He isn't concerned with what happened in Denver. He is only concerned in fulfilling his own pre-existing beliefs about what he thinks ought to be happening. First reports suggested that this was a racist killing. Then it emerged that the vast majority of those killed were the same race as the killers - NO MATTER, the dogma must be upheld. In response to the killings Charles demands the KKK be banned. The K ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Apr 26 15:51:34 PDT 1999

2561 The People's Right to Bear Arms -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.NEB.4.10.9904260229090.5381-100000 at panix7.panix.com>, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> writes in reply to me >I quite agree with you that breaking the power of crime panics is crucial >to mobilizing people for progressive ends. But lowering the level of >lethal violence in society seems crucial to me to bring about this end. But lethal violence does not cause crime panics. They arise out of the mutual alienation of individuals, who, in the absence o ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Apr 26 16:09:49 PDT 1999

2562 bad language -- rank: 1000

In message <v02130500630bdacc1b1f@[128.112.71.32]>, Rakesh Bhandari <bhandari at phoenix.Princeton.EDU> writes > I was swearing not so much at you as any attempt to get >me to empathize with these killers for their anti conformism, iconoclasm, >anomie or torment; it is also not possible for me to characterise their >racism as only shock value epithets. No, I'm sorry, Rakesh, I did not mean to get up on my high horse. Of course, on calmer reflection I appreciate your poin ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Apr 26 11:04:41 PDT 1999

2563 Race & Murder -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.5.32.19990426020824.0084dab0 at mail.netzero.net>, Mark Rickling <rickling at netzero.net> writes to Emma >Can you refer me to the exact passage in which someone either implicitly or >explicitly states that race was *the only* factor leading to the Columbine >shootings, *to the exclusion of all other explanations*? But Emma already quoted Maggie The shooting took place because the >black trench coat gang BELIEVED that blacks are inferior to whites and saw ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Apr 26 00:24:52 PDT 1999

2564 race & murder in Britain -- rank: 1000

The far right here has just planted its second bomb in an immigrant area, first it was the afro-Caribbean Brixton area of South London and yesterday it was the Asian (that's Bangladeshi to you Americans) area of Brick Lane. The bombs used are nail bombs, which have caused severe injuries (two Brixtonians stand to lose their sight), though thankfully no-one has yet been killed. Unlike the US teenagers, these killings are pretty clearly linked to the organised far-right. The venues are the two bes ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Apr 25 13:52:50 PDT 1999

2565 bad language -- rank: 1000

In message <v02130506630c05e94b31@[128.112.71.32]>, Rakesh Bhandari <bhandari at phoenix.Princeton.EDU> writes >Jim, fuck your high falutin anomie, frankly. Which is unnecessarily rude (and ever-so-slightly affected). If Rakesh doesn't like my posts, he doesn't have to read them. I prefer not to be sworn at, so I won't be reading any more of Rakesh's for a while. Fraternally -- Jim heartfield

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Apr 25 14:14:33 PDT 1999