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Starry Messenger

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3. I've been trying to assume good faith, but what you say conforms to the way they behave.

Reply to JI7 (Reply #2)

Fri Feb 24, 2017, 09:28 AM

Feb 2017

Deep deep down they must believe that this is a zero-sum system, despite their rhetoric. That's why they take the side of people who voted for Trump, despite protesting that they are really on the side of the oppressed.

Lots to think about there.

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How many times must the intersection of class and racial discrimination be explained? [View all] JHan Feb 2017 OP

It's pernicious. Starry Messenger Feb 2017 #1

i think in many cases they know it wont result in equality for all JI7 Feb 2017 #2

I've been trying to assume good faith, but what you say conforms to the way they behave. Starry Messenger Feb 2017 #3

I'm sure if we "fixed" the class struggle, this never would have happened: JHan Feb 2017 #5

Tragically true. :( Starry Messenger Feb 2017 #8

"If racism is an oppression from the ruling classes" forjusticethunders Feb 2017 #6

Good write up! Starry Messenger Feb 2017 #9

I need to add more meat and sources forjusticethunders Feb 2017 #10

Have you read Toni Morrison's essay "Making America White Again"? JHan Feb 2017 #11

In biblical terms, Whiteness is an aspect of what Jesus referred to in this verse in Mark 8:36 forjusticethunders Feb 2017 #12

++++++++ I can't rise to it either, I can't muster handing out redemption cheaply.. JHan Feb 2017 #13

It's not your burden Quayblue Feb 2017 #4

Yes, because it's not hard to understand..I can handle ignorance.. JHan Feb 2017 #7

Mothers be having that wisdom. Quayblue Feb 2017 #16

"business as usual" JHan Feb 2017 #17

Dear God I don't even know anymore ismnotwasm Feb 2017 #14

it's not your burden either.. in all fairness.. JHan Feb 2017 #15