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Incomplete Dialectics of the Woke

I would love to have the chance to lecture the offended Ottawaian anglo-students, many of whom are not black, that their attack on racism is essentially racist. Exactly the case in the US with the Woke, who are surprisingly though incompletely “dialectical” in their reactions. Thesis –> Antithesis –> …  but NO SYNTHESIS.

At least in the Sartrian (Hegelian) reading of Négritude there was a Aufhebung, a sublimation, an erasure, if you like, of the conflict, a transformation of its terms, per Sartre though not in fact, into universal post-racial citizenship and thus into class conflict.

https://dl1.cuni.cz/pluginfile.php/489096/mod_resource/content/1/03b%20-%20Orphée%20noir%20-%20Sartre.pdf

Dammit, I said all this clearly in my 1977 dissertation, which has had zero effect in/ on the World 😉

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My Reply: Guess They’ll Just Have to Live with It ….

“From what I can tell from what I know of my classmates, there are still some people have not changed a whit since high school, same easy going racism, same blind patriotism, same scorn for the different, same indifference to idea and intellect. The best thing, and it’s a poor best, is that they are all going crazy with anger in the knowledge their spokesman on the national and world stage is going to be sent packing.”
< E.L.
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Part of the Picture

Extrait d’un courriel: 
I keep returning in my mind to the remark you made near the end of our Zoom. Something like: “Once a political scientist, always one, which means looking at the facts in the face.”
True, the facts of human social behavior is hard to discern but way too much of political commentary is part of the picture rather than a description of the picture — if I can out it that way.
Thx for that nugget.
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Know Thyself

Like many persons whose geneological origins can be found in Northern Europe going back at least several migrations, I am insufficiently #melanated, especially for living where another “migration” has brought me.

My skin, however,  responds warmly to sunlight and tans up pretty nice.

#racism #colorism #melanism

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Adolescence from the Vantage of Old Age

From the vantage pf 75, adolescence, its mental turbulence and arduoud phase of learning what is real and what isn’t in the world extends far longer than the advent of puberty to the sill of legal adulthood. Rather it is the onset of an age of reason, as defined, of course, by the attitudes which aging imposes.