The "culture war" is largely a distraction from the economic war. While we fight over Hollywood and social issues, billionaire oligarchs and corporations bribe/ buy the government and rig the system in their favor and against the overwhelming majority of Americans.
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The point is: demagogues like Trump use issues like immigration to divide and conquer. It's a purposeful strategy to get middle class whites to hate poor POC with no money and no power. If you convince them the *real* problem isn't the rich they redirect their very real anger.
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yo i know this might be mindblowing or whatever but as it turns out its possible and even rational to dislike both mass immigration and the rich (who love the former, by the way)
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Chomsky here basically BTFOs a lot of critical race theory that tries to link capitalism as part and parcel with racism lol
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