There’s Always More Labor After

[ludickid]

That well-fed fellow up there is the Reverend Douglas Wilson.  A product of Idaho’s state university system and a recipient of the largesse of his flock, this noble sky pilot is best known for his series of debates with the notoriously godless Christopher Hitchens on the topic of whether or not Christianity has been a boon for mankind.  (Rev.

Comments

[fengi]

Your writing is always very good and smart, even when I disagree vehemently, but this sentence is way more reactionary than you intended: "Liberal identity politics have hurt rather than helped this trend; many minorities, women, and gays, elevated to new success, have bought into to the lie of a classless society, but as the seats at the bosses’ table grow fewer, they will learn the hard lesson that poor white trash learned ages ago

[ludickid]

My point is, precisely BECAUSE minorities experience oppression disproportionately, they marginalize class issues at their peril. It happens in proportion to the degree of oppression that they suffered during the worst of times, so you see these polls indicating that there's close to 0% support for Romney/Ryan in the black community; but there's an increasing amount of conservativism amongst Hispanic voters, and quite a lot amongst Asians. Gay white males tend to be, predictably, more conservative the wealthier they are; I haven't seen any numbers, but I would imagine lesbians are the same. Herman Cain certainly thinks that being rich trumps being black (he learned otherwise when he tried to challenge his own party on the "NIggerhead" thing