#'scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds' lol ok pot. meet kettle. bc is This your king?
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not to be black on main, but i don't think racism and/or right-wing 'leanings' are minor inconsequential things worth ignoring in the name of Working Class Solidarity™. like this isn't so much about luigi and whatever he (allegedly) did as it is about the response from (alleged) leftists. unlike many of you making posts like that, i live in the real world (while black). and in the real world, the politics of SO many americans start and stop with hating non-white (or specifically black) people, wherever they personally fall on the class ladder. this is why millions of poor and working class white americans will happily cut off their nose to spite their face if it means millions of nonwhite americans (of Any social class or income) are kept in 'their place'. this is a Big reason why reconstruction failed and the southern strategy succeeded. so, no, it's not something i can afford to look past for the Greater Good, actually. whole time, y'all are talking around it like it's a mild inconvenience, a teeny-tiny bump on the road towards some utopic class unity or whatever, as if racism isn't Fully Baked into politics isn't Fully Baked into classism in the U S of A. once y'all figure that out, something (like fixing this bullshit healthcare system) might actually get done lol
sorry if this complicates your easy 'this is how working class solidarity can still win' narrative, but life is complicated!
#'scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds' lol ok pot. meet kettle. bc is This your king?#so many posts or tags with 'i dont care if he's right wing' and yeah! i can tell based on the exit polls this past election! big shocker!#it's just. this isn't some new concept to me. this is Super Basic American History.#it's literally why a racial hierarchy exists and continues to exist bc people Want it to exist and could give a damn about class#this is like bernie sanders making statements about why democrats lost the working class lmao#easy thing to say if you ignore ALL the black people in the working class who still OVERWHELMINGLY voted for the democrat#pretending that racism isn't built into america's class issues (and exploited when needed) isn't gonna make it so racism goes away#i also wish healthcare in this country wasn't such ass or actively supervillainy evil (next 4 years are gonna be...well...)#but man. i just don't think many of you are serious people#politics#rambles#hopefully i'm done talking about this now but i only wrote this bc i've seen so many eyebrow-raising 'i can excuse the right-wing' posts
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