Droopy wrote:
The idea that access to and ability to wield political power on a broad scale being relevant to whether one is or could be racist, and whether a racially charged term falls somewhere along a hierarchical scale of racial impropriety is, yes, a key concept within critical theory and its intellectual progeny, critical race theory, the outgrowth of which has of course been black studies, Afrocentrism, and multiculturalist claims centered on American blacks.
You can't keep track of your own writing. I was actually referring to this paragraph I wrote, which you responded with this description:
Yeah, you're a "libertarian," which is why you continually speak the language of academic critical theory, neo-Marxism, and the black studies department at your local state university. ... Michale Eric Dyson or Cornell West couldn't have said it better.
My paragraph was a near exact summary of the same position McWhorter articulates here:
http://www.powells.com/review/2002_01_31.html
The implication is if what i wrote is "academic critical theory, neo-Marxism, and the black studies department at your local state university" that "Michale Eric Dyson or Cornell West couldn't have said better" then the same is true of McWhorter. That's funny because when you mistakenly thought you could use McWhorter to articulate a position you wanted to argue, you were praising him as an important black conservative intellectual. Yet when I go ahead and adopt a position identical to his that is neither neo-Marxist nor the domain of lit-crit cultural studies, you try to label it as such to insult and dismiss it. That's because you don't really think any of this through.
I hardly need to take cultural studies classes when I've been encountering it for many years from primary sources on my own, and my hard disk is loaded with books, monographs, video lectures, and Power Point presentations on cultural theory, critical studies, critical race studies, multiculturalism, and the history and doctrines of the Frankfurt School.
How funny that your deeply intense renaissance man study of a huge breadth of topics has you consistently sounding like someone who superficially skimmed and is parroting websites popular among the religious right. What a coincidence.