% of women who survived the Titanic sinking: 72%
% of men who survived: 16%
#privilege
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Now do it by class. That’s a fun exercise in statistics.
Yes, they also had shameless class privilege. And it's almost as if modern identity politics is designed as a distraction from the real forms of economic exploitation -- like credit card debt & student loans & runaway consumerism.
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You know there were way more men on board than women right? And that the survivors by gender numbers was on par? I’m sure you do know this. You’re just pushing a narrative. In actuality the breakdown of deaths is more classist than sexist. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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Lmao what a baby. What’s funny is that I actually WORK in nautical history. Sorry facts got in the way of your feelings.pic.twitter.com/DYYOG3GSmY
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None of my liberal friends care about economic exploitation. They are just in it to play the race-card and get laid. Also I'm glad that most of your tweets are "ironic and don't reflect anyone's views," because they would be pretty bad for a smart person to believe.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Before Capitalism, society was classless? History says no, if anything Capitalism made it easier for people to escape the bonds of Class & Caste, globally, it's not a perfect system but much fairer than those that proceeded it & the extreme centralized systems that try replace it
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Then why bring up the Titanic? When the ship went down, the mores of the TIME dictated the order of evacuation. Of course, the wealthy pushed for their women first. Tell me, do you think if this happened today, would the same mores apply? We keep kids in camps! We deny health ins
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So in addition to the fact that you have no idea how deeply embedded in our economic foundation housing discrimination & even SLAVERY are, you're completely unaware of the fact that credit card debt and student loans disproportionately affect Black populations?
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Do they now? I have 70k in SL & cc debt & I'm WHITE, thnx for telling me. So, all I have to do is call the creditors & tell them it's impossible for me to have debt because I'm
#white, they'll apologize profusely for the error as they were unaware of my skin color & erase it.
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I know a few socialists who dislike modern intersectional femininism b/c they argue much sexism/racism is actually classism. I see their point sometimes but Im not sure how much we gain by trading "everything is about race/sex" to "everything is about class"
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