@alicemazzy false equivalence + not a zero sum game + race in america is a social reality defined by white coalition in 1st place
I'd consider the us being reduced to feuding ethnic cliques just about the worst outcome, both from a macro...
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... perspective and for me personally (worry liberal consensus may remain the only thing safeguarding homosexuals...
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... , hasn't had time to become broadly normalized)
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but I place blame squarely on the left for pushing hostile identity politics over assimilation and coexistence
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Yes, not opposing subjugation and quietly assimilating is definitely what has defeated oppression in the past.
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Again I ask: who is it historically who has actually worried about miscegenation?
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I am arguing that is beside the point. the white supremacists of old were roundly rejected in the 60s
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if there is a resurgence, it won't be KKK and neo-nazis, it will be following the pattern laid by the left
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you see this with the identitarians in europe, they're just doing the exact same thing as progs
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Naturally I don't want feuding ethnic cliques either. But that desire doesn't address the five brief points I made.
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You can presumably guess that I oppose the liberal form of identity politics. But I also think organising based...
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...on class (race/gender/&c) analysis is necessary for the abolition of class, and that requires class awareness.
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"War is evil. We therefore start a war to end all wars. Fear not! Ours is different. Our cause is holy."https://twitter.com/HarryGiles/status/798214367909126145 …
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every. damn. time.
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You are a logician; conflating "struggle" with "war" is beneath you.
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But if you want to talk seriously, suggest an alternative analysis of how to end class oppression.
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I am saying there *is* a false equivalence between the oppressor class reifing the system to consolidate power
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