On Mar 15, 6:07=A0pm, "P J O'donovan" <grau...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 03/15/2008
>
> "The Leftist group identity obsession has never faded: ""The pillars
> of American liberalism -- the Democratic Party, the universities and
> the mass media -- are obsessed with biological markers, most
> particularly race and gender. They have insisted, moreover, that
> pedagogy and culture and politics be just as seized with the primacy
> of these distinctions and with the resulting 'privileging' that
> allegedly haunts every aspect of our social relations. They have
> gotten their wish. This primary campaign represents the full
> flowering
> of identity politics. It's not a pretty picture. Geraldine Ferraro
> says Obama is only where he is because he's black. Professor Orlando
> Patterson says the 3 a.m. phone call ad is not about a foreign policy
> crisis but a subliminal Klan-like appeal to the fear of 'black men
> lurking in the bushes around white society.....
>
> ...Perhaps liberalism has been led astray from a more politically
> wise, philosophically profound body of ideas. Perhaps some on the
> right are correct in diagnosing the problem as one of ideological
> excess that perhaps began in the 60's, or perhaps has been lurking in
> socialist, neo-marxist, anti-capitalist thinking here and elsewhere..."
We don't care! We are British, not American. Please bugger off.....and
don't come back!
Dr. Barry Worthington
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