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In reply to the discussion: Great essay written by a billionaire Dem [View all]JCanete
(5,272 posts)but that it doesn't happen the other way around. And yet here you literally claim that social injustices are a creation with the intent of supporting economic injustice. You don't see that as a contradiction? The whole mental and cynical justification for racism is necessary to justify covetousness and selfishness.
On a basic human level people want to believe they are good, but they also want shit, so they have to concoct a story that allows both their greed and their "goodness" to coexist. And if they're particularly cynical, they want to sell everybody else on that story. There is so much money in telling that story, so how can you tell me that economic injustice isn't a huge driving force of the propaganda that keeps racism alive and well?