Counterpoint: everything that made Trump possible (Iraq War, 2008 recession, stagnation of working class) was created by elite decisions https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/842792038680727552 …
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Leopold II was not elite.
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So it was the Democratic elites embrace of racism in the last 20 years that brought us Trump? Or the Civil war? Nonsensical.
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Who said "Democratic elites embrace of racism"? I think big factor is GOP elite's embrace of Southern Strategy.
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There's a plausible argument that MEN caused slavery. There's one that economics created slavery.
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Again, where is your information coming from? I am an elite engineer - did I cause slavery?
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You clearly don't understand what this conversation is about.
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America's racist system can be traced to Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, where white indentured & black slaves teamed up.
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Virginia elite then set up system of keeping races separate, especially the poor, to prevent them from re-teaming up
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"Capitalism depends on racism as both a source of profiteering, but more importantly as a means to divide and rule."
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Babies are racist, or rather tribalist- you need to show them people of other races early. Elites make ideology.
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So, racist ideology like "drapetomania"- that's an elite invention or adoption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania …
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