February 2, 2007

Many Types of Discrimination

To the Editor:

Walter Benn Michaels is more correct than he realizes ("Why Identity Politics Distracts Us From Economic Inequalities," The Chronicle Review, December 15). Both extreme income inequality and rampant class discrimination are (or should be) more important than racial discrimination.

Class discrimination in its most brutal forms is both legal and respectable — the direct opposite of racial discrimination. Aside from labor unions, no political players in

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