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| | Swift. I guess 21st century "culture jamming" is 18th century
pamphleteering with more jargon and less literature. |
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| | What can we expect |
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something else? I don't understand. |
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> | Self-righteousness >> that they could be the mouthpiece for all men, Entitlement >> that they had any claim to North American land whatsoever |
| | and institutionalized racism, which both permeated the roots of American property law and the Constitution.
I think you mean "and slavery". |
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> | No I meant institutionalized racism, because slavery in the U.S. was just one example of it. |
| | In 1915, the American Celebrity had changed. Early that year, The Birth of a Nation debuted to soaring reviews and box office records. Arnold would say Americans look to a single event, a sudden birth of a nation. Perhaps, but surely new heroes are born. In 1915, industry was transforming the world, and men like Thomas Edison and Henry Ford were public figures of the day. Teddy Roosevelt’s U.S. didn’t want conflict hurting production, and it would take two years after the sinking of the Lusitania for the U.S. to enter the war. |
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passport-checking. |
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> | Yes I'm saying Jim Crow was a burdensome system that created overlap and waste. I'm not saying that separation was created solely in a bureaucratic way but simply that besides other types of cost, bureaucratic enforcement has monetary costs, and unless you believe in its goals, or in appeasement of those who do, there doesn't seem to be much reason to pay those costs. |
| | But that doesn’t mean people can or will forget about it. Arnold says new organizations rise to fill the gaps left by an older order. Hyper-exploitation today “happens” to be racist; 40% of Hispanics over 25 do not have a high school diploma, and the same percentage of prisoners in the U.S. are Black. But that’s a coincidence.
It isn't a coincidence,
but you haven't said what it is. |
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> | Sorry, guess I should reorganize it a bit, I meant to at least imply its caused by ingrained racism within our institutions (the part you said doesn't relate to anything below). |
| | New York recently raised $260 million by requiring citizens to purchase new license plates, which were made by prisoners paid $0.42 an hour.
But the traditional |
| | the Bank War, he stands before you in Scott as the intellectual
center of proslavery Democracy. |
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> | Maybe he was indeed a vehement racist and not a victim of anything, but even if that's completely accurate, what if it wasn't? Isn't that just conventional wisdom, "things long past which come to us only in books"? Besides I want to know why we heap all the praise or villainy on someone like Taney who presents widely held viewpoints of the day. He didn't create those ideas he just had the institutional power behind him when he wrote about them. I don't think it makes any more sense to make him the "bad guy" even if he did believe in it. My concern is much more with the court as an institution that propagated many of those same views with or without Taney. |
| | In Dred Scot, the Taney Court, after pages of exasperatingly explaining how Blacks are historically inferior, rests finally on the authority of the Constitution. Look, it says. Racism is part of our ethos, our creed, our mythology. Its in our courts, its in our laws, its in our constitution of nationhood. And he was right, it was. Racism is one of the pillars of early American property law. It and other types of status discrimination based on gender, material wealth, and political influence form an overlapping foundation for the law which facilitated the most fundamental wealth redistribution in North America, that is, the redistribution of land from native "occupiers" to wealthy white male land owners. This legacy's effect on contemporary societal structures should be self-evident*.
If your proposition is |
| | possible, without losing much when we lose the wrong or misleading
history, etc., to put some of the style here to work on a sounder
footing.
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> | Thanks for the feedback. I wish more profs did something like this. |