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To: LindyBill who wrote (38366)8/17/2002 8:39:24 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
As I read it, Pomo, multiculturism, and Post Colonialism insist on looking at cultures as a whole.

Those are different theories, agendas, whatever. Apparently, it doesn't matter what I say about them. You wish to believe they are some sort of political whole that opposes your way of life.

Let's move on to some other topic.



To: LindyBill who wrote (38366)8/18/2002 12:36:25 AM
From: D. Long  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 281500
 
"I want to go up to the closest white person and say, 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing,' and then slap him, just for my mental health," Charles Barron, a member of the New York City Council, told the crowd.

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Ideas that can only be understood by members of a class, in the context of that class. This is the rejection of objective truth obtainable by reason in favor of some collective 'race truth.' No conversation is possible there.

Derek