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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Replying to @arthur_affect
I would argue that, as an example, racial discrimination against Italians in the US is an identity based oppression that went away because it was thought about differently.
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Replying to @ILoveUTigerLily
I mean yes, in the crudest sense, since all oppression is carried out by humans who base their actions on their thoughts, all oppression could be ended by "thinking about things differently" The abolition of private property and class would just be people "thinking differently"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I would argue that the relationship between classes (specifically here capitalists and workers) is more mechanical in nature. Any owner who profits without working is automatically extracting wealth from a worker. It’s a parasitic relationship.
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Replying to @ILoveUTigerLily
Okay but that's the whole thing, it's all socially constructed, including all the "mechanical" shit that underlies class, like the concept of property As we all know, money is just pieces of paper and bits in a computer, and so are titles and leases and laws
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Replying to @arthur_affect
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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Replying to @ILoveUTigerLily
Lol no "Race", in and of itself, is the result of the white vs Black divide The official "list of races" (the fact that I'm in one of the "third races" called "Asian") is a complicated historical accident resulting from the existence of "white" and "Black"
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And there would not be any such thing as "white" without "Black" or vice versa That's why we use those terms in the first place (when actual skin color is, obviously, a spectrum)
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