Every once in a while, a number of discussions in my personal blogosphere converge. In this case, it’s the discussion of race and IQ that I restarted and continued, andwhichhasattemptedtotakeoverGreg Laden’s Blog for the last couple of weeks, the discussion of the racist connotations of “redneck” by bikemonkey being overwhelmed by the discussion of “redneck” as a classist term, Will Shetterly’s ongoingcritique of the antiracist community’s failure to deal with classism as an underpinning of racism, and Eric Michael Johnson’s deconstruction of social Darwinism. It’s time to say a few words about the intersection of race and class.
I’m taking on the light, uncontentious topic over at Quiche Moraine.
Stephanie Zvan is one of the hosts for the Minnesota Atheists' radio show and podcast, Atheists Talk. She serves on the board of Secular Woman. She speaks on science and skepticism in a number of venues, including science fiction and fantasy conventions.
Stephanie has been called a science blogger and a sex blogger, but if it means she has to choose just one thing to be or blog about, she's decided she's never going to grow up. In addition to science and sex and the science of sex, you'll find quite a bit of politics here, some economics, a regular short fiction feature, and the occasional bit of concentrated weird.
Oh, and arguments. She sometimes indulges in those as well. But I'm sure everything will be just fine. Nothing to worry about. Nothing at all.