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Noel Ignatiev, scholar who called for abolishing whiteness, dies at 78
Los Angeles Times ^ | November 11, 2019 | Sewell Chan

Posted on 11/21/2019 2:55:02 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff

Noel Ignatiev, a former steelworker who became a historian known for his work on race and class and his call to abolish “whiteness,” died at Banner-University Medical Center Tucson on Saturday. He was 78. The cause was an intestinal infarction, according to Kingsley Clarke, a longtime friend. Ignatiev’s best-known book, “How the Irish Became White,” was immediately influential and controversial upon its publication in 1995. It touched off a firestorm of debate at the time at academic conferences and in the pages of newspapers. In time his view that whiteness is a social and political construction — and not a phenomenon with a biological basis — has become mainstream. The resurgence of white identity politics and white nationalism in recent years made Ignatiev’s arguments relevant to a new generation of readers who argued the notion that race is more about power and privilege rather than about ancestry, or even identity.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: academicbias; antiwhite; cpusa; endwhiteshaming; hatespeech; ignatiev; leftistbigot; mccarthywasright; nakedcommunist; race; waronwhites
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1 posted on 11/21/2019 2:55:02 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I guess he crossed over to the dark side.


2 posted on 11/21/2019 2:58:25 PM PST by Dacula (Epstein did not kill himself.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Asians are soon to become white.


3 posted on 11/21/2019 2:58:48 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

good ridence to bad rubbish.


4 posted on 11/21/2019 3:00:04 PM PST by euram
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I guess he started abolishing it by doing something practical.


5 posted on 11/21/2019 3:00:40 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Whiteness is a social construct my ascot...

Buh-bye!


6 posted on 11/21/2019 3:03:04 PM PST by Skywise
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Was he a Red Diaper Baby?


7 posted on 11/21/2019 3:05:52 PM PST by dljordan
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To: Skywise

Intestinal infarction? In other words, he was full of shyte and it burst.


8 posted on 11/21/2019 3:06:59 PM PST by IgnaciKat (RIME)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Never heard of him.


9 posted on 11/21/2019 3:09:22 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

The self-loathing turd lived way too long as far as I’m concerned.


10 posted on 11/21/2019 3:16:15 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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To: Dacula

Another commie bites the dust.


11 posted on 11/21/2019 3:21:41 PM PST by HighSierra5
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Wasn’t mighty white of him.

If he walked into the light, I wonder what color it was?


12 posted on 11/21/2019 3:22:03 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I guess this racist loser was full of s*** after all.


13 posted on 11/21/2019 3:24:12 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Vile individual. The proper way to go out considering the filth he espoused.


14 posted on 11/21/2019 3:27:53 PM PST by LongWayHome
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
Oh gosh, he WAS...?

Oh, yeah....guess he was.

I'm so shocked.

15 posted on 11/21/2019 3:30:37 PM PST by gaijin
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Friggin commie. Bitter, jealous, hateful and prolly a homo.


16 posted on 11/21/2019 3:37:56 PM PST by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the disco)
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To: Responsibility2nd

He was a prominent Communist professor.


17 posted on 11/21/2019 3:40:41 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff (I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee-Old Yankee Stadium (1923-2008))
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I guess he’ll be happy now that he is dead rather than white.


18 posted on 11/21/2019 3:42:02 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Dacula

That’s a good day for America. He was an actual card carrying communist, and member of the SDS in the 1970s.

Burn in hell communist


19 posted on 11/21/2019 3:52:07 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
Noel's whiteness has been abolished.
20 posted on 11/21/2019 3:53:46 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (Soon. Boom. Bombshell. Did I miss any?)
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