If it had just been "let's end racism" instead of "let's end racism by supporting horrible corporate warmongers" there'd be a lot less racism today.
Any time I talk about racial justice I get people calling it identity politics when it's really not; becoming conscious of racial injustices in our society isn't about promoting any political agenda, it's about consciousness. But people think that because it's been so exploited.
If people weren't so acutely aware of the disgusting ways in which race and racism have been used to promote the political agendas of absolutely horrible people and parties, that aversion to seeing this stuff would not be there. They made institutional racism impossible to heal.
It doesn't take a genius to recognize phoniness, opportunism and cynicism when you see it; most people can smell it a mile away. The fact that racism has been exploited in a way that prevents it from being healed is itself a metastasis of that same racism.
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