@jessesingal Isn't that the conservative argument against ALL problems they don't actually want to solve?
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@WeTheLiving thread/argument that starts waaaaaaaaay back here https://twitter.com/AngryBlackLady/status/712074452897374211 …This Tweet is unavailable.
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@jessesingal That doesn't seem an honest representation of the arg. It's a genuine issue of how racism makes such "striving" very difficult. -
@cslaughter guess I just don't see how it wouldn't improve things to direct resources to people who have been systematically denied them - Show replies
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@jessesingal Pretty unfair to consider "socialism with racism = meh" as same as "no socialism while racism exists".Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@WeTheLiving@jessesingal The counter is that racism prevents wealth from being distributed more fairly, because only fair on 1 dimension. -
@WeTheLiving@jessesingal Give more to poor + racism preventing minority poor receiving = bigger gap between minority poor and white poor.
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@jessesingal this is a good example of how economic equality is insufficient to end racism http://ift.tt/1Rkd2QX ... -
@jessesingal and so when you read the debate over this (eg in that vox article about jacobin), socialists come off sounding very uninformed - Show replies
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