Re: Why Beijing?


Peter T. Daniels wrote:
ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Peter T. Daniels wrote:
ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Peter T. Daniels wrote:
I have never mentioned "Whoopi," and racists don't, as I pointed out,
give a *** about class.

They do. They classify races hierarchically. It's what makes them
racist.

"Class" does not mean "classification"!

Things are classified into classes. There's more than one way of
classifying, so a given thing can have a separate class in each class
system.

That is not the meaning of "class" in this context.

Class can have multiple meanings since there can be multiple
classification systems.

What is the "hierarchy" of races among your favorite racists?

white
colored: Indian, Pakistani origin
black: Zulu, Xhosa, etc.

I gather you have never visited the United States. The above has
absolutely no meaning whatsoever in the context under consideration;

Wouldn't a KKK don treat Zulu and Yoruba immigrants as being of a
different class and different race from his, as opposed to a white
civil rights activist who would treat them as being of the same class
as his but a different race for affirmative action purposes?

nor are those three lines "classes"; and you have omitted "Orientals"
entirely.

.... for good reason. South Africa's classification system didn't have
an "oriental" class. Someone else's might have an Oriental class.

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