Remember this whenever people try to categorize racism as the domain of poor and backwards people. The people at the commanding heights of commerce, media, and law worked to empower Trump and enable his agenda.
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I always hated that narrative. It's so trite and doesn't take racism, it's systematic implementation, or its victims seriously. The very idea of hatred and bigotry as solely a function of ignorance is lazy. Not to mention it mocks people for not knowing things.
A lot of people like to dismiss racism as insubstantial to material realities but we’re watching a nation burn trillions of dollars in wealth to entrench a racial system of domination.
Not an exaggeration. When you look at attacks on academia, research and immigration, you see society deliberately turned into a mass of mediocre white people who won’t cause trouble or create anxiety.
This is the Achilles heel of many people left of center. You will get Liberals and Leftists sounding exactly the same when minimizing the importance of race. It gives them existential anguish to face it.
But it’s like they’re doing a pagan sacrifice to entrench that system. It’s everything all at once with no rhyme or reason except to be cruel. A lot of this will have the same effect as slaughtering a lamb to bring about rain
Yeah, brute materialism doesn't really explain basically any ideology that extends across multiple economic shifts. (Don't tell the Marxists, this really bugs them. I say this as a Marx enjoyer.)
It won’t even work like they hope. They think that nobody is ever going to make or watch a show with Black leads, that there will be an all-white world except for everyone standing to serve in the back. (Some also hope women will forget that they are capable of independent thought.)
whiteness loudly sponsored all of this like a college football bowl game and “the resistance” still sound like a kid who didn’t do the reading whenever the topic comes up. it’s embarrassing
Idk bro both parties are obviously the exact same thing. And that's why I sat out the election. I say as The trump glaze enforcement agency drags me to an El Salvadoran work camp for insufficient glaze
In the 3-5 years it takes for companies to come here, people will lose wealth and rights and be ready to work for them. Then the owners will never let go of the order created since it makes them rich
I used to read about the South pre-Civil Rights & wonder at White businesses cutting off their noses by refusing to serve a whole bunch of people because of racism.
And this is being done voluntarily, whenever we ask whether people are voting against their self interest we have to remember they get to define what’s in their own interest and a solid majority decided immiseration was preferable to equality.
I see it also as an issue based on a zero sum game view of the world. Even if equality based policies like DEI or affirmative action ultimately benefit *everyone*, some people see it as "it's giving something to someone else so it's obviously stealing something from ME".
Making yourself happy requires some effort and time. Making everyone else miserable is easy to outsource. There was a quote from a coal miner at the Rose Garden yesterday that was basically that. They are so miserable and unwilling to self improve, and happy to just tear everyone else down.
She was the keynote speaker at @qside.bsky.social Data4Justice conference a few years back. Introducing her was one of the greatest professional experiences of my life.
People in my red county blue state…vote but not giving much thought to racism “Trumps gonna make us rich” these types would lock their blue voting granny in the outhouse for the lie .. that a president can make these single-wide dwellers rich
I wish I could tell you you're wrong. Every cut is hardest on the people who voted for it (though not on them alone). Ending the Dept. of Ed, cuts at VA, cuts at SSEC, SNAP, CHIP. The "red states" have more poverty & rely more on federal spending. I suppose they'll enjoy watching it all burn.
But the money only goes to “Red States” on paper. In reality the programs getting cut improve the lives of people who are poor, minorities, elderly or have a disability. All the people Republicans hate.
I’ve done a lot of cycling in the rural parts of my state, Massachusetts. Here, I can say with certainty, there are lots of poor people who voted for Trump - or fly his flags.
The voting patterns are the same everywhere. More rural and non-college educated voters (lower income) went for Trump.
The Republican Party has done such a good job lying to voters- making them think all the government programs only help Black people in cities when Rural Electrification/ Broadband, rural development and water access grants, telemedicine and distance learning programs, affordable housing loans…
Interlocking Systems of Oppression (Combahee) or White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy (hooks). This is the system. It's a re-entranchment, right now, of the pre 90s mode of Capital. They are in real time even abandoning neoliberalism
Someone explain to me how racism is insubstantial to material realities when it affects the material conditions of people being discriminated against :|
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There's a resource that explains it, included as part of our collection (link in bio)
now however it is much more difficult to ignore this reality
Here it is, the intersection between capitalism and racism.
This is the result. Destroy everything to reinstate white dominance.
I still don't get it, but I see it now.
It's like Brexit, a vote that hurts economic wellbeing driven significantly by stoking racist and anti-immigrant sentiment.
The voting patterns are the same everywhere. More rural and non-college educated voters (lower income) went for Trump.
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Yes, you are right generally but in this specific case…
Again and again, Harris underperformed other Dems.
In America that has been the black community.
As programs to (rightfully) rebalance historical inequities have had an effect, poor whites perceive their economic status to have fallen.