funny how we don't seem to hear the Ta-Nehisi Coates view of racism so much these days https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/19/opinion/heather-mcghee-racism.html …
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The book "Caste" is very good on this, strong rec. Also, Hank Aaron reminded that Babe Ruth never faced the best pitchers, only the best *white* pitchers.
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Except that the disparity of punishment for powder cocaine vs. crack cocaine was made to punish black people while showing leniency to white drug addicts.
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yea i actually think the language of "owns the libs" is no accident: the conservative vernacular is populated with this kind of language of possessive individualism b/c trampling on the left is an exercise in racializing violence more broadly for the Right
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I didn't get into it in the piece but McGhee discusses the psychological rewards of white supremacy, though she argues it pays diminishing returns as the strip-mining of the public sphere immiserates more and more white people
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There was a mid-century era where people got white supremacy *and* the welfare state. Now they get white supremacy *instead* of the welfare state.
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"The wolf licks the blade."
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I don't think anyone has ever described doing cocaine as "sensible."
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you haven't done any time in the music or entertainment industry then, i take it?
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During Reconstruction there was a burgeoning alliance between Freedmen and poor whites. This would’ve been a powerful coalition that threatened the recently reacquired power of the former Confederates...so they used the zero sum white supremacy lie to drive a wedge between them
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