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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Reading this story I found myself wondering how any rational adult could say & means these things. I have to conclude this man was disturbed.
I wonder if he also had a problem with being a Jew?
So he read Marx and this comes out.
Did you give it to him?
I always heard, the only good commie...........well, you know.
I had an in infarction this AM.
"Ignatiev said that he had spent most of his life around people who vehemently disagreed with everything he said; he was confident that he had always been right, but also pretty sure that being right had amounted to nothing.He seemed to be posing a difficult question for those who believe, as Ignatiev did, in spontaneous revolutionary change: How do you measure success if the revolution hasn’t yet come? A few days later, Ignatiev flew out to Arizona to see his daughter and grandchildren. On November 9th, he died, at the age of seventy-eight."
Roast in hell, hesh! #Schadenfreude
He just did his part.
Anyway, what are your thoughts on the passing of a prominent Communist professor, who never created a cent of wealth or created a job for anyone? Did notice you capitalized Communist.
yep.
Yes. Saw this the other day. Had not heard of him before this news of his death, but noted at the time, that he was not the only person out there advocating for an end to whites. Seeing a lot of that lately, in fact.
Shame he lasted this long.
Prayers for his family, though.
“The cause was an intestinal infarction.”
TRANSLATION: “He was full of siht.”
Swalwell had an infarction just the other night. Live on TV.
“The resurgence of white identity politics and white nationalism in recent years...”
This so-called “resurgence” can be laid directly at the feet of professional race-baiters & agenda-pushers who stand to gain from it.
It is, to borrow a phrase, a “social construct” which serves the interests of sh%t-stirring poverty pimps with a vested interest in keeping the races at each others’ throats.
Ask always: who benefits? Not white people. Not Americans— and the term “American” is NOT synonymous with “white people.”
The “resurgence of white identity politics” is, on its face, a patently absurd phrase.
American patriots are, by their very nature, RACIALLY DIVERSE, and do not practice the “identity politics” of pitting races against one another.
We practice the politics of law-abiding vs. lawbreakers.
One of your New Jersey Republicans, Puffy ?
God abolished him first. Sad, as our president would say.
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