Some of these "race first" people are really invested in making sure no policy even *accidentally* benefits any white people, no matter their economic status, and I don't know what to say except for that it's inhumane and a sure way to alienate a natural coalition.
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Replying to @briebriejoy
It all ties in with the erasure of class as well. Ideologically the left runs on solidarity. The way liberals commodify identity is both mutually exclusive with and toxic to building solidarity. We're all working class and we should all be standing in solidarity together.
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Replying to @VryKranky
Haven't you heard? Wanting solidarity makes you an uncle tom race cuck who doesn't care about black people enough. Signed: my mentions
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Replying to @briebriejoy @VryKranky
Yea. Solidarity has gotten black folk far In this country lol
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Replying to @mOnKofficial @VryKranky
It's almost like you have no understanding of your own history.
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Every class-based/interracial coalition has resulted in blacks marginally benefitting, if at all, and benefitting the least out of the groups targeted. Not saying coalitions cant work, but if not critical of past applications then we’ll repeat the same mistakes of our own history
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Replying to @timagotchi_ @briebriejoy and
The biggest advancement in both Black and white freedom was 1861-1876, and that was a black/white coalition, right? There aren’t enough white liberals alone or black liberals alone to make progress. Reconstruction was broken by smashing that coalition
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Replying to @ryangrim @briebriejoy and
Yes, black codes, vagrancy laws, penal labor/peonage, forced sharecropping, lynch law & other forms of discrimination was such a significant advancement for blacks. That’s just one amongst many flaws in that comment.
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Replying to @timagotchi_ @briebriejoy and
This is completely ahistorical. The things you're talking about were heavily suppressed by Reconstruction, not produced by it. When that was broken by breaking the biracial coalition, black codes, vagrancy laws, etc all surged back. It ushered in the Gilded Age and rampant misery
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