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Politics : To be a Liberal,you have to believe that..... -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MikeH who wrote (5378)	1/14/2000 10:19:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6418

Re: Do you have a rebuttal at all to my statements? A rebuttal is an accurate and cohesive counter point that shows that what I stated was either false or inaccurate. Or, like many "intellectual" liberals, can you not form opinions on your own. Actually, I'm rather skeptical about this (typically American) IQ craze.... My feeling is that Americans (white, black, red, yellow,....) share a common egalitarian mythology. And one of the pillars of that mythology claims that the American Dream is up for grabs to everybody --whether s/he's white, black, whatever-- provided s/he achieves enough "hard work". Hard work is yet another all-American idiomatic expression that cannot be easily translated into French. Obviously, I could translate it as "travailler dur"; however, the French translation doesn't carry the same ideological power that the English phrase has. So, (conservative) Americans, like most other people, tend to view their social fabric as the outcome of some "natural order", that is an order resting upon meritocracy and natural self-fulfillment. After all, as Neocon has rightfully reminded us, the American paradigm is historically branded as the antithesis to Europe's Ancien R‚gime: no matter what's your family/ethnic/gender background, if you work hard, you can do it! Hence the contempt for any class struggle theory amongst mainstream US politicos. Any class-conscious analysis is ideologically un-American. At this point, since, over the centuries, the US --just like any other evolving society-- has recreated the very prejudiced strata it was supposed to abolish (ie bourgeois vs. proletariat, white collars vs. blue collars, whitey vs. wogs, WASPs vs. kikes,.... you name it!), right-thinking people (like yourself) have repressed such a decay of the American ideal and have accordingly and hypocritically come up with IQ pap and other behaviorist nonsense to rationalize the misfortunes of the ill-fated Negro and his fellow Cracker..... Gus.