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When irony flies over their heads…

Georgia NeSmith

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Hmmm. It appears that either the article to which this was a response was removed, or I have been blocked from seeing it. Oh well. I’m leaving my response [revised, updated, and new material] here anyway.

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Wow. This is utterly bizarre. After reading this piece I simply had to go and read the Tim Wise article you reference and assert that it condones violence as part of the movement to bring about racial equality. That is, true racial equality and not mere abstract ideas.

You say Tim Wise’s article promotes violence as a means of social change. But I couldn’t find a single sentence that does any such thing. Nonetheless your statement at the beginning of this article makes it sound like promoting violence was Wise’s organizing theme. For the life of me I cannot figure out where you got that.

So maybe you should use some actual references to Wise’s article instead of relying on whatever memory you have of what you read, and your resistance to it — probably in anger against the straw man you constructed whole cloth from Marx and Wise — and ready to dance all over both, it seems.

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Georgia NeSmith

Retired professor, feminist, writer, photographer, activist, grandmother of 5, overall Wise Woman. Phd UIA School of Journalism & Mass Communication, 1994.