"What is evaded here is the way that racism is not some naturally-occurring tendency but, necessarily, a displacement of the class antagonisms which the neoliberal consensus - hello everyone on the QT panel apart from Griffin - has a vested interest in covering up."
Whereas,
Race is not a hot issue in prosperous upper middle class London neighbourhoods. The reason race -is- an issue has to do with former white working(/lower middle)-class deprived communities being marginalised and ignored (or feeling so), then venting their anger at the more vulnerable target; ethnically identifiable newcomers (foreign tribe) rather than the economic structure that surrounds and pins them (the inscrutable gods).
That, as well as the elderly conservative sectors of ageing Brutish Britain who would probably believe as they do whatever structual changes were effected.
to krskrft: It isn't actually a tax as such that pays for the BBC. It's a license fee paid to the BBC itself by those who own a TV. I don't own a TV, i don't pay a thing. Crazy i know; but i'd happily pay the BBC a stipend for the great work it does.
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Date: 2009-10-26 06:24 pm (UTC)http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/011347.html
That:
"What is evaded here is the way that racism is not some naturally-occurring tendency but, necessarily, a displacement of the class antagonisms which the neoliberal consensus - hello everyone on the QT panel apart from Griffin - has a vested interest in covering up."
Whereas,
Race is not a hot issue in prosperous upper middle class London neighbourhoods.
The reason race -is- an issue has to do with former white working(/lower middle)-class deprived communities being marginalised and ignored (or feeling so), then venting their anger at the more vulnerable target; ethnically identifiable newcomers (foreign tribe) rather than the economic structure that surrounds and pins them (the inscrutable gods).
That, as well as the elderly conservative sectors of ageing Brutish Britain who would probably believe as they do whatever structual changes were effected.
to krskrft: It isn't actually a tax as such that pays for the BBC. It's a license fee paid to the BBC itself by those who own a TV. I don't own a TV, i don't pay a thing. Crazy i know; but i'd happily pay the BBC a stipend for the great work it does.