"Economics or race" of 2016 is the "was it the Internet or people" of 2011. Wrong question fuels weak understanding.https://twitter.com/cant_b/status/765616005217394692 …
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Having totally missed the viability of Trump as a R nominee doesn't seem to have deterred anyone from their uber-confident analyses either.
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Also, striking differences between the confident headlines "it's THIS!" and the text and data of the articles—often much fuller and nuanced.
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As happened repeatedly elsewhere, and in this country. This intertwining is a clear, persistent historical pattern. https://twitter.com/zachdcarter/status/765568002880262144 …
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The economic component to cultural component of racism goes back to day zero. What is slavery but economic plunder justified by racism?
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One would think so but they aren't that intertwined. Debt-slavery has no race aspect. Also in Rome, most slaves were Italian born.
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US slavery. Yes, the Roman slavery vs. US slavery provides good insight into the cultural aspects of economic motives.
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