Stanley Fish discusses (subscription required) the new Caveman show and it's racial metaphor, interestingly raising this issue vis a vis Walter Benn Michaels and his ”The Trouble With Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality”:
Michaels argues that if we think “racism is the problem we need to solve,” all we have to do to solve it is “give up our prejudices.” But if we think our problem is that too many people are poor, hungry, homeless and uneducated, solving that problem “might require us to give up our money.”
Read it yourself and decide....
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