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- From: albert@hpl.hp.com (Joseph Albert)
- Subject: Re: Men doing Male Bashing
- Sender: news@hplntx.hpl.hp.com (HPL News Posting Service)
- Message-ID: <C19vv5.B6y@hplntx.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:35:27 GMT
- References: <1993Jan18.025854.29081@netcom.com> <1993Jan18.072911.15112@leland.Stanford.EDU> <93018.090052RIPBC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories -- Database Research Group
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- In article <93018.090052RIPBC@CUNYVM.BITNET> <RIPBC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
- >
- >From: farthing@leland.Stanford.EDU (ljf)
- >Subject: Re: Men doing Male Bashing
- >-
- >-I do think whites as a class benefit from racism in this country.
- >-
- > Farthing is confusing benefits and a lack of loss....
-
- True, but the correct argument to demonstrate that whites as a class benefit
- (in some ways) from racism is that by oppressing certain other groups, members
- of those groups are offered less access to economic resources, which in turn
- maintains a larger majority of the economic pie available to be divided up
- among whites as a class.
-
- I put in the note (in some ways) above because I believe that in the long
- run, we all lose from racism, if we believe in the capitalist tenet that
- given the opportunity, people will flourish and create a whole that is
- bigger for everyone.
-
- Joseph Albert
- albert@hplabs.hp.com
-