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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
 
Race/Identity

What's so absurd about how this conversation is unfolding is that our white males on the teevee have never had any problem with the identity politics that they associate with American Whiteness - the identity politics of white ethnics - but get freaked when a member of a non-approved (nonwhite) group achieves some prominence. None of these guys have any problems with an Irish-American touting his Irish tribal identity or an Italian-American doing the same, but the slightest suggestion of that coming from anyone nonwhite makes them discover a new concern for racism. You know, racism against downtrodden white people.






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