Got CL’d at the end of the last thread, so…
Really getting irritated by this talking point that economic hardship exacerbates racism. It’s ridiculous.America’s racist element has not changed one bit through the years, in good times and in bad. Racism has nothing to do with money.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 18, 2020
There’s a key difference in “racism and classism are intertwined and neither can be addressed w/o addressing the other” and “classism causes racism and solving classism will necessarily solve racism in the end”
— Impeached K (@Citizen_Kryptik) January 18, 2020
It’s amazing how many folks are coming out of the woodworks on this particular weekend to say that Racism necessarily is caused by class and that we must only focus on class to solve it, all the while shitting on the very concept of ‘identity politics’.
It’s like…you know, MLK worked on civil rights AND worker’s rights. That doesn’t mean that they’re the exact same issue or that he believed they were the exact same issue. It just means they’re interconnected in a way that you can’t solve one without the other. Not that solving one automatically solves the other.