tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35248477.post4561612306249914882..comments2024-03-27T14:20:05.905-04:00Comments on Montclair SocioBlog: I Wonder Who's Dissing Who Now?Jay Livingstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06652075579940313964noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35248477.post-58673167398221337632009-08-08T10:57:18.513-04:002009-08-08T10:57:18.513-04:00You haven't been harassed by enough female cop...You haven't been harassed by enough female cops.<br /><br />I live in a city with a heavily lesbian police department, and it doesn't stop tham from harassing homeless people, artists, and activists every day on the town's main thoroughfare. <br /><br />We're also the city with the most racially disproportionate sentencing in Wisconsin -- not sure how much of that begins at the policing stage, but you have to figure.<br /><br />Also, since when is it mutually incompatible for incidents to express class power and racism?Elizabethhttp://underagereading.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35248477.post-61219518188009125732009-08-07T10:51:13.445-04:002009-08-07T10:51:13.445-04:00I think Thomas Frank in the Wall St. Journal naile...I think Thomas Frank in the Wall St. Journal nailed it: the left framed it as a racial incident, the right framed it as class. The right got the better of it. The shorthand version in most of the media was the Professor vs. the Policeman -- i.e., the elitist Harvard guy vs. the middle/working class ordinary guy.Jay Livingstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06652075579940313964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35248477.post-17214551947732078572009-08-07T01:15:48.649-04:002009-08-07T01:15:48.649-04:00I also wondered about class issues. But of course...I also wondered about class issues. But of course, I did work on that project about the "declining significance of race", or as we preferred to call it, the "increasing significance of class." So my mind skews that way.trrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11840209409286594625noreply@blogger.com