A sense of economic displacement fueling more racism or cultural anxiety mixed with economic analysis is a historic norm. Boringly common.
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Replying to @zeynep
So historically common that there are German words for it. Cannot, cannot fight this without understanding the economic displacement part.
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This isn't arguing it's not racism. Also not arguing weakening an anti-racist stance. The opposite. Would be both morally wrong and stupid.
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You can see all this clearly in how education & isolation have become the strong mediator variable of how racism plays out in this country.
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Given the numbers, difficult to win elections in the US without understanding the intertwining of race & econ, and finding ways to fight it.
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Replying to @zeynep
Regressions are useful for many things; but not this. IMO this leads down a wrong path and politics that follows this will hit more walls.
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To be clear: I strongly oppose anyone who argues for putting anti-racism in the back burner. That is morally unacceptable also futile.
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The point is to understand there is no separating the "economic" from the "racism" in understanding how this dynamic works for many. /end
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Agree. Having grown up in the Rust Belt, "I want things the way they used to be" tends to mush racial/cultural/economic together inseparably
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And that's a hard point to make, without sounding like you're trying to downplay one or the other
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So much analysis out there that is trying to separate on or the other, in order to argue to downplay the intertwining.
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