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Exactly. The basis of the racial caste system was literally to make white people (men) feel better about getting nothing. If I can convince you that you are better than your fellow man then you won’t recognize the illogical nature of fighting to keep slavery when you don’t own slaves. You won’t realize that cutting social services for Americans and putting those things behind a pay wall to exclude black people will end up hurting white Americans in the future when things get more expensive.
It’s all a class war, and we cannot defeat it by ignoring the very real oppression of people of color and women to uphold these things. These issues did not go away. They have become so pervasive your race and gender will no longer save you from class oppression.
Comment by Atlasatlastatleast at 21/01/2025 at 19:37 UTC
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That last sentence’s is incredible, I’ve never seen or heard anyone put it that way.
Comment by Nervous_Ad_5583 at 27/01/2025 at 16:08 UTC
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"The basis of the racial caste system was literally to make white people (men) feel better about getting nothing."
With respect, it seems to me that an important, unacknowledged factor here is the American prison industrial complex, or carceral system, so brilliantly evoked by Angela Davis throughout her academic/political career. Her analysis places POC at the very bottom of the bottom and demonstrates how--in the United States at least--we have a social system that works to keep POC enslaved but has merely disguised itself as a "justice system." Until this system becomes dismantled, it's almost useless for people of privilege to wring our hands and clutch our pearls and seek some kind of phony cosmetic "liberation" solution to this appalling historical atrocity.