🚀 go-pugleaf

Isaac Cubillos wrote:
> 
> In <546alv$jpc@park.interport.net> amk@interport.net (Andy Katz)
> writes:
> >
> >Only when you separate completely race from class is the above valid.
> >Otherwise adopting a stringent class-based critique is every bit as
> >narrow as the race-based one.
> 
> There is an overlay of racism in the class war, there's no doubt about
> that. I'm stripping to its barest essence, which I believe Tony and
> Andy both agree (if I read their different post correctly) that the
> root, underlying cause is class.
> 
> A case in point is the overclass getting "Irish" described as a
> separate race other than "white" in the census collecting of the 1800s.
> Then only after former black slaves began moving north and taking jobs
> along the harbors of the Eastern cities, did the overclass see a way to
> manipulate the situation, but moving "Irish" into the white
> category.... nothing changed, the overclass kept theirs and now the
> white Irish had someone to squabble with of the leftovers ... based on
> race manipulated by the overclass.

Yes, and I have seen LAPD writing "M" for "Race:" on traffic tickets.
So history repeats.

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