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In reply to the discussion: Great essay written by a billionaire Dem [View all]JCanete
(5,272 posts)who want a black and white story they can grasp, a boogie man to fight against. You want to bust the foundation? Well give people a better narrative that makes that foundation worthless. That makes it extraneous and even a hindrance to a new set of goals. If you want to go at these people and call them racists you are more likely to push them into their way too fortified bubbles. Tell them instead that these rich fuckers are playing them and attempting to sew racism as a distraction and that still gives them an out. We aren't accusing them of being vile. We don't have to accuse them of being fools either. We just have to give them a reason to distrust the narrative they are being fed. That's an in. That is an opportunity to get their guard down and to give them information they are lacking and typically unwilling to hear.
Yeah. I think that just might work. More to the point, I would love to hear an alternative that you think will actually wrest power from those who continue to feed into the propaganda.