Those who teach that history has but one lesson are doomed to live out that delusion. I said that. The Politics of Meaning are Mere Semantics I am writing in response to the piece on the politics of meaning. It seems that the writer of this piece has mistaken shallow semantics for real, substantive meaning. What he and many others fail to realize is that what are really at issue are the politics of inclusion and exclusion.
White conservatives play the bad cop, with their shameless attack on otherness through exclusion.
Meanwhile, white liberalism is made more palatable in contrast, by means of inclusion. In reality they are simply two means which work in conjunction to reach one end. That end is to maintain the structure and function of the marketplace as well as the socio-economic status quo in this country. Let us not be so naive as to believe that Bill Clinton's supposed politic of meaning was ever anything more than a means of getting into office. His politics did not lose meaning.