Pretty much my own feelings. There are a lot of people who think like that and if you look carefully you can see them around the margins of all these discussions, not just race but gender, sexuality and so forth, on both 'sides' of every argument, but unfortunately we don't have much of a voice because the very methodology of the discussions tends to silence us. Sometimes I have to go off and talk to people who haven't been immersed in US radical methodology just to remind myself that plenty of alternative points of view exist. And sometimes I have to step right back, make wild statements about how I will never participate in such discussions ever again and take a long break. Unfortunately since they are more or less the only socio-political discussions occurring on LJ, and since I do actually find the topics interesting and important, even when I know I find the methodology hugely wrong-headed and frustrating, like a moth to a flame I am drawn back.

I find it helps to read widely around the subject off LJ - most of the criticisms of the methodology that I have felt over the years are in fact well documented and expressed elsewhere. It's not just us! :o)