No.
Poverty does not cause white supremacy, and it is not an excuse for white supremacy.
I'm so sick of this Jacobin class reductionist bullshit that portrays working class folks as some mass of racist dolts while letting rich people off the hook for their versions of racism.
Poverty does not cause white supremacy, and it is not an excuse for white supremacy.
I'm so sick of this Jacobin class reductionist bullshit that portrays working class folks as some mass of racist dolts while letting rich people off the hook for their versions of racism.
https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1314343175960567808
Remember, Jacobin/Chapo/etc rode Bernie's wave and cultivated all that new clout, audience, & money flow by assuring casual middle class white dude bandwagonners that they could be socialist without having to do any work on their sexism/racism/ableism in any way, shape, or form.
They make money off assuring self-centered, financially secure white dudes that their racism and sexism and ableism makes them MORE WorkingClass™, and therefore ESPECIALLY good socialists.
They don't just condone oppressive behavior, they encode it as a status marker.
They don't just condone oppressive behavior, they encode it as a status marker.
It's weird, I was a labor organizer for nearly a decade, ran an entire coalition of labor unions and grassroots community orgs, and... all the actual working class leaders I talk to treat this sort of nonsense as offensively racist, classist horseshit.
But hey, what do they know?
According to the class reductionist crowd, working folks are just simply incapable of understanding race or class unless they're jubilee DSA members with lifetime Jacobin subscriptions and Chapo on their iPhone, right?
According to the class reductionist crowd, working folks are just simply incapable of understanding race or class unless they're jubilee DSA members with lifetime Jacobin subscriptions and Chapo on their iPhone, right?
Funny how white class reductionist writers nearly always seem to think that the working class is incapable of good, righteous, or moral behavior without their noble class-privileged guidance.
It's almost as if they have contempt for the people they claim to advocate for.
It's almost as if they have contempt for the people they claim to advocate for.
(PS, just to be clear here since there's confusion, I'm not trying to suggest that desperate people aren't more likely to do desperate things. I'm saying "no" specifically to the idea that poverty causes racism or makes it worse or more extreme. Rich people are just as...
...extremely and violently racist as poor people. Their white supremacist violence is much more massively deadly than poor people's white supremacist violence. It's just been normalized and systematized, so we don't see it for the radical white supremacy it very much is. Also...
...and I cannot stress this enough, fuck Jacobin.)
(PPS no wonder rich people racism is invisible to him, motherfucker is a Brooks Brothers suit "socialist" from the Hamptons, lol. (Source: link.medium.com/HQBCy2wMrab)) 
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