If anyone is interested, I read this today, which may or may not be part of the theory behind OWS. PDF, 93 pages
Unfortunately a significant number of people who see the class issues are so worked up about culture war issues that they'll never align with the folks who might actually do something about the problem.
This isn't the most active thread.
2:Well, it may not exactly be about the culture wars, but GB and Europe have been working on inclusion for a while, you know?
Here is Richard Seymour aka "Lenin" White People Need to Shut Up this thread really degenerated with a Walter Benn Michaels troll, but there is some good stuff here
I gotta admit I ain't so great on the multicultural stuff, but I did write a couple thousand words entitled "Preliminary Notes Toward a Conjunctural Dialectical Feminism" which I didn't post.
"No one is free until all are free."
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The kids at Sally's middle school dance are doing the Electric Slide. It is very sweet.
Shouldn't that go in the grinding thread?
Shouldn't that go in the complaining thread?
No visible grinding, and surprisingly little nervous lurking around the edges of the dancefloor. Everyone was dancing. This is not how I remember dances.
The kids are dancing voluntarily? That's sick!
and surprisingly little nervous lurking around the edges of the dancefloor
"Just this one lady."
I asked Sally about it, and she rolled her eyes and said "I go to school in Harlem, Mom." Which, I suppose she does.
4: I have a sick love for line dances that are not the Marcarena. Do students at her school do the Cha Cha Slide as well?
Of course, I also really want to learn how to clog urple's toilets. Whatever happened there?
I wonder what percentage of the affirmative answers were republicans concerned about the the oppressed rich, and independents and liberals who wish we could all just get along?