The Baraka poem is a piece of fascist propaganda. If a similar poem were
written against blacks by a white racist none of you would tolerate it
for a second and nobody but racists would publish it. I'm sure this
posting will get all sorts of smarmy, supersubtle,
sophisticated-poststructuralist, white-guilt-ridden, politically correct
responses to the effect that the word "fascism" cannot apply to a
victimized minority or that a poet from such a minority cannot be
fascist. Unfortunately, it can and he or she can. More generally,
political correctness - I trust you Aussies know the expression - is the
death of thought, and I spit on it. There should be a limit to anomic
multiculturalist nihilism masquerading as tolerance.
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