A lot of people arguing that if class were "merely another identity" then that means "if we just thought about it differently it would go away" As though there's any form of "identity-based" oppression for which that actually is truehttps://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1335848556096270338 …
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And *all* "socially constructed" marginalized identities reproduce themselves just as mechanically They only exist in the heads of the people who enforce them - there's no laws of physics that enforce any of them - but they're real nonetheless
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This is the big huge sticking point for so many people They think of racism as personal animus - it's a matter of white people getting pissed off, hateful, deciding they want to go fuck up some nonwhite people today It's not, it's just as structural as class
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You still haven’t addressed the parasitic nature of class that doesn’t exist for any of these “identity-based” oppressions. There’s no race that requires another race to exist.
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The "white" race absolutely requires non-white races to exist that it can position itself as superior to. This is an inherent part of what "white" as a race is and why different groups have tried so hard to get integrated into the "white" race.
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