Not just ragging on Team Bernie here, but there is an issue with the word "majoritarian" here, whether it comes from left, right, center, up, down, above, beneath, front, back, or to the side.https://twitter.com/jjz1600/status/933142054389125121 …
At some point we have to take seriously the actual decisions people make. Material things like class should matter more than nominally immaterial things like race. But um. Serious q: when was the last time class was a better predictor of vote than race?
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Anyway, we need more talk about race, not less. What we need is to say clearly: "listen, we're not backing down on the race stuff, we know you don't feel comfortable about that and we get it! But listen, here's what we're gonna do for you and here's why you can trust us."
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This is literally an argument for identity politics. And a good one. And it is fair. Not trusting white people to understand race, on the basis of the entire life experience of every nonwhite person in america, is very, very, very, very fair.pic.twitter.com/pp8YPuWjgi
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