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11461 [lbo-talk] On the term, "Political correctness" -- rank: 46

I think that the term "political correctness" was originally coined by leftists back in the 1960s or 1970s to poke fun of sectarianism run amuck. But yes, this term has long since been hijacked by the Right, so with possibly, a handful of exceptions, there is little point in progressives using ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Tue Aug 20 10:19:19 PDT 2013

11462 [lbo-talk] US Magazine: "Barack Obama: He's Just Like You & Me!!!!!" -- rank: 46

... over the years: http://www.usmagazine.com/hillary_clinton_fashion_police_020708 http://cleandraws.com Wear Clean Draws ('coz there's ...

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Author:	shag
Date:	Tue Mar 4 03:27:55 PST 2008

11463 [lbo-talk] Repression & Its Varieties -- rank: 46

... say, but then the helplessness starts again. And as the police state tightens its tentacles, the slave economy expands. Hard times ...

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Author:	JOANNA A.
Date:	Wed Aug 21 16:32:13 PDT 2013

11464 [lbo-talk] speaking of... -- rank: 46

[This isn't so bad until he lights the unity pipe and wanders off into the fog.] THE COMMUNIST HYPOTHESIS ALAIN BADIOU <http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=article&amp;view=2705> [...] Between the end of the first sequence and the beginning of the second there was a forty-year interval ...

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Author:	Eric
Date:	Wed Mar 5 11:40:45 PST 2008

11465 ATTAC newsletter: After Gothenburg -- rank: 46

... it to reinforce our messages and our calls, but the police reactions and legal violence, is. Here is the declaration made ...

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Author:	Johannes Schneider
Date:	Wed Jun 27 03:48:31 PDT 2001

11466 Cuba: Bed and breakfast economy -- rank: 46

Business Standard Last updated 0100 hrs IST, Saturday, May 26, 2001 OPINION Bed and breakfast economy Tourism, a key element in Cuba's "emergency strategy" adopted to survive the harsh 1990s, has begun to pay dividends writes David Devadas The water is blue. Farther out, the colour gets deeper. This is ...

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Author:	Ulhas Joglekar
Date:	Tue Jun 26 19:13:21 PDT 2001

11467 The Politics of the Disability Rights Movements II -- rank: 46

... favorable treatment. While this occasionally meant less harsh treatment by police when engaging in civil disobedience, ADAPT and the disability rights ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Tue Jun 26 12:34:37 PDT 2001

11468 [lbo-talk] On the term, "Political correctness" -- rank: 46

Another case of Carrol having it backwards. "Politically correct" are important left terms, the opposite of reactionary. It was the bourgeois media who first started up disdain for the terms when it was a left usage. We took it instead of "you are right" , because of course "right" has the double ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Wed Aug 21 17:26:16 PDT 2013

11469 [lbo-talk] On the term, "Political correctness" -- rank: 46

The terms have not been hijacked by the right. They are used by the right to cast aspersions on some left wing statement of a politically correct ( not "right") position. Charles On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote: > > > I think that the ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Wed Aug 21 17:28:13 PDT 2013

11470 e: US Deception during Bosnian war (previously sent, cut a bunch 'o verbiage...) -- rank: 46

Click the URL's esp. for the great aufheben piece> etnicizing NATOsevic by Harald Beyer-Arneson, I think. Michael Pugliese >funny how one can easily disconnect nationalism from economy. jc helary http://www.ainfos.ca/99/may/ainfos00083.html (en) The BALKAN WAR and leftist apologetics for the Milosovic regime >From ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon Jun 25 13:59:40 PDT 2001

11471 Very Doubtful. Re: was "Walter Benjamin Murdered By The Stalinists?" -- rank: 46

... October 1940, Horkheimer requested detailed information from the Spanish border police. He was told Benjamin's death was 'not suicide but ...

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Author:	Kenneth MacKendrick
Date:	Mon Jun 25 11:34:07 PDT 2001

11472 [lbo-talk] speaking of... -- rank: 46

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Mr. WD <mister.wd at gmail.com> wrote: > > But suppose you actually do faithfully live the consequences of the > axiom 'there is only one world.' What kinds of things will you do? > Certainly you'll be doing a lot of agitating -- and ...

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Author:	Sean Andrews
Date:	Thu Mar 6 07:06:51 PST 2008

11473 [lbo-talk] with a whimper, not a bang -- rank: 46

... left-leaning journalists. DeBlasio wins and appoints Broken Windows guy police boss. Meanwhile the more retrograde forms of identity politics seem ...

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Author:	John Gulick
Date:	Sun Dec 8 19:20:38 PST 2013

11474 [lbo-talk] speaking of... -- rank: 46

... is > echoed in his discussion of a community organizing against police > repression. But here, it basically requires some fundamental > antagonism which ...

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Author:	Mr. WD
Date:	Thu Mar 6 20:33:51 PST 2008

11475 seattle -- rank: 46

---------- >From: Brad De Long <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> >To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com >Subject: Re: seattle >Date: Wed, Dec 1, 1999, 11:52 AM > >> >>for now, a big welcome to the diverse, global and hopefully indigestible >>figure of anti-capitalist struggle of the 21st c! >> >>Angela >>_________ > > Anti ...

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Author:	alessandro coricelli
Date:	Wed Dec 1 11:10:45 PST 1999