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Just a few thoughts...
Wiggas are obviously beneath our contempt, white trash uncritically coopting the appurtenances of blackness without any attempt to examine the ideological or ethical implications of their actions. They are ungainly, absurd, and parasitic.
What about the college girls with the dream catcher, or the brand consolidator with dreadlocks? What, for that matter, about the feeling of slight nervousness so many middle-class white people seem to feel when a group of young black men is walking towards them. Or indeed the exec who never invites his gay coworker and his boyfriend to post-work bull-sessions, because he sincerely and honestly believes, (or is sincere and honest in his belief that he sincerely and honestly believes) that he is just not the party type?
Point being, is there "invisible" discrimination , which may in fact be invisible, or at least perfectly *justifiable* and thus *reasonable*, among the "good guys"? How can it be detected? How can it be battled? And hey, is it even a good idea to battle? If people are clever and sensitive enough to behave in what they deem to be a considerate manner, what right have others to criticise their conduct? And where does coexistence become collaboration?
Was thinking about this partly as a result of the "Wiggas" thread, but also because of a bunch of other things...f'r example, Illfigure was excoriated for suggestion that some "fags" may like prison. But then....I recalled that somebody once observed that her boyfriend believed that the world could essentially be separated into "dudes" and "fags", and that he could spot a "fag" from a hundred paces. Faced with a certain "your boyfriend is a twart" backlash, she responded "Oh well, obviously I disagree with him....."
Likewise, the brouhahah about whether or not it was a societally instinctive airbrushing of queerness to ask "Are you married", or to reapond with hostility to critiques of that question, on another thread.
So, lots of faintly incoherent thoughts, there, but I guess the question is - is "prejudice" or more precsiely the identification of prejudice a class-based privilege, and how does one best attempt to deal with the "othering" of prejudice.
Thoughts?
[ 09-03-2002: Message edited by: Tannhauser ] |
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