For the record, any analysis of Democrats electoral situation in the past 8 years that does not address the significant roles of race and racism, sex and sexism is, you guessed it, racist and sexist.
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And I do not expect a poor white person to vote for a social justice warrior who they think will leave them twisting in the wind next time the economy goes south. To the depths of my soul I do not.
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But then don’t expect me to vote for you if you think calling racists deplorable, EXPLICITLY calling racists and sexists and xenophobes specifically deplorable, is “condemning anybody who has questions about social justice policy.” FOH.
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Disclaimer: as a middle class queer black man who came up in a heavily assimilated environment with a side of black prosperity church, if the last 10 years were good for anybody, they were good for me. I get that.
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But part of the reason this shit pisses me off so bad is that I WANT a successful social justice economic populism combo SO BAD. But if you make me choose, yeah I’m gonna pick the one that seems like they understand racism, bonus points if they don’t have the queers.
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And that’s natural and normal and human and sad so don’t make me choose! And stop writing racist articles that are that weird electoral-politics-only-class-reductionism and start learning how to build power in coalition with folks! Thanks for coming to my TED Talk!!!
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