It's always just "Well if you read my whole book you'll see I never said that other forms of oppression don't exist" I.e. class reductionists don't ADMIT they're class reductionists Just like white supremacists who get famous don't actually say white supremacist shit out loud
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People lie You don't judge someone's priorities and their commitments based on some position paper of what they officially declare to be their beliefs Because everyone just signs off on the same set of socially acceptable shibboleths
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You look at what their actions reveal over time What they choose to spend time on and talk about There's a lot of people who ONLY ever talk about racism in the form "Of course I care about racism, but" Always with the but
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(To paraphrase Pee-Wee Herman, everyone has a but, sometimes it's a big but, sometimes it's a little but It doesn't matter, and I don't need to see your but Keep your but to yourself, along with everything that comes out of it)
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there are too many people on twitter with bad class reductionist takes for it to not exist
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My favorite bit it's how much racism is inevitably in their timeline
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Imagine that.
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I see a lot of people who sneer (rightly) about "trickle-down economics" assuming that civil rights and social justice "trickles down" after "universal" (i.e., centers white people) concerns are dealt with.
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A lot of white people want every discourse to center them, and it isn't entirely limited to the right wing.
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