User:Meerta

Hi Meerta, Thanks for your support on the 'English People' page. I recommend leaving the discussion now. I will pursue legal channels on this now. Thank you again for your insightful comments. I am currently based in the USA and writing a book that will use the notion of family resemblances to develop our understanding of what race/ethnicity might be said to be. I will use Wittgenstein obviously, but also African American theorists, such as W E B DuBois. He is especially brilliant on these matters I think (I include a quote below). I thought all your comments were very well put and nicely nuanced. I do think the apologists have shown their motivations well enough now so i think it best to leave it. The last comment sums up the level of argumentation for me! Of course, if you feel differently fire away!

QUOTE I knew from the days of my childhood and in the elementary school, on through my walks in the Harvard yard and my lectures in Germany, that in all things in general, white people were just the same as I: their physical possibilities, their mental processes were no different from mine; even the difference in skin color was vastly overemphasized and intrinsically trivial. And yet this fact of racial distinction based on color was the greatest thing in my life and absolutely determined it, because this surrounding group, in alliance and agreement with the white European world, was settled and determined upon the fact that I was and must be a thing apart UNQUOTE. (DuBois 2007 [1940]: 69)

Makes me cry every time! All the very best to you and thanks for stepping up.