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Like the sixties counterculture rebels who thought they were shaking the foundations of Western civilization by dropping acid, there were a handful of professors and students of identity politics who believed "great blows are being struck against capitalism in the realms of theory," as critic Gayatri Spivak put it. And Dinesh D'Souza and his ilk couldn't resist calling P.C.ers "neo-Marxists" - but, in fact, nothing could have been further from the truth. The prospect of having to change a few pronouns and getting a handful of minorities on the board and on television posed no real threat to the guiding profit-making principles of Wall Street.
Originally posted by Someone336
I feel that this post falls into the modern trap that leftists = communists, an idea spurred by those who wish to see all left wing thought discredited. You initiate the post by saying "excellent example of the false left/right-dichotomy our world is ruled by", yet you repeatedly use the phrase "Cultural-Marxists/Leftists"
Like the sixties counterculture rebels who thought they were shaking the foundations of Western civilization by dropping acid, there were a handful of professors and students of identity politics who believed "great blows are being struck against capitalism in the realms of theory," as critic Gayatri Spivak put it. And Dinesh D'Souza and his ilk couldn't resist calling P.C.ers "neo-Marxists" - but, in fact, nothing could have been further from the truth. The prospect of having to change a few pronouns and getting a handful of minorities on the board and on television posed no real threat to the guiding profit-making principles of Wall Street.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
The race-issue is an excellent example of the false left/right-dichotomy our world is ruled by.
the inflationary use of the PC "race-card" is created by Cultural-Marxists/Leftists
Can you tell the difference between genuine Anti-Racism and Hidden-Agenda-Driven-Marxism?
Originally posted by Someone336
I'm sorry, I just don't see the relationship between Marxism and Political Correctness. I've read the Communist Manifesto before, and I don't remember a single passage relating to the concepts now known as political correctness. Of course, feel free to post anything from Marx, if I'm wrong.
Originally posted by Someone336
reply to post by Skyfloating
Oh. I didn't realize that the events that inspired Marx and the original socialists (you know, Industrial Revolution) weren't full of instances of the ruling class oppressing the poor.
I also didn't realize that those coal miners in US history who were radicalized by the writings of Marx and Bakunin weren't living in squalor and working in horrendous conditions.
We are different and thats good
Originally posted by Skyfloating
"Races dont exist" is just another way of saying "There are no differences", which is option B of the false dichotomy.