Every few years, a white progressive man begs activists to reject racial questions and focus on the “real” agenda. The latest is Walter Benn Michaels, head of the English Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who wrote the book The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality, and who was recently featured on… return to article
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Posted by hawaii jack on Jan 10, 2007 at 4:05 PM hawaii jack,
I was being sarcastic here:
“This will enable us to get poorly collected, but very encouragingly distorted data than ever before. Thus the “experts” from the Fed on down to Jim Cramer will be assured of full employment, the media will find it easier to fill 24/7 programming and the fairy tale (Goldilocks) economy may stay on life support a bit longer.
Who says the government doesn’t create jobs?”
------------------------------------------• poorly collected data (a rubber ruler is used)
• very encouragingly distorted (to make it look good)
• full employment for — the FED, talking heads like Jim Cramer and the media can fill the 24/7 slots
• the fairy tale (BS) economy can be propped up a bit longer
• jobs “created” by government ballyhoo for people of no national economic value
Posted by whattheheck on Jan 11, 2007 at 8:14 AM -
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