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But if you look out the window, it might be apparent that if we give it another decade without tackling classism, the tiny-minded avarice of the neoliberal filth will soon render the whole question moot. Civilised behaviour requires a civilisation to happen in.
This is all true, apart from the bit about rendering the question moot, which again is minimising people's experiences of racism. It's also no good ignoring the trees to save the wood when those trees are telling you they're being attacked and you can listen to those trees and help them whilst saving the wood, or whatever long-winded metaphor we're going with. Do both, do better innit.
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Do both
Given the systemic nature of the problem and its causes, I see a total lack of attention, let alone emphasis, on taking down the scum driving the world off a cliff.
Seems to me, a sense of solidarity is sorely lacking. If I pipe up with the point I'm making here in a place dominated by the sort of groupthink floating around academic circles, I'm relentlessly strawmanned as the enemy despite my hard left credentials; a Bernie Bro to be pilloried. Glad to see it's not so bad here...
Circular firing squads may well provide a nice buzz of happy neurotransmitters for those all wrapped up in the fashionable dogma, but I'm sure the enemies of humanity and the planet are happy about them too. Almost everyone has a smaller share of wealth, and more importantly, self-determination than they deserve, but we can't even make that an identity we can all share?
Oppression Olympics are a complete distraction from the main game - ending toxic hierarchy. Show me some people around here talking about that, and I'll concede we're doing both.
Like, yay BLM, but where the fuck is Occupy?
Kimmo
You do a good job of making it sound like a chicken and egg situation, but I'm still inclined to reiterate that racism is self-evidently a subset of classism. Doesn't that make classism the root problem?
I wouldn't dream of letting racists off the hook. But if you look out the window, it might be apparent that if we give it another decade without tackling classism, the tiny-minded avarice of the neoliberal filth will soon render the whole question moot. Civilised behaviour requires a civilisation to happen in.