On white male, hetro privilege.

[HiPointDem]

124. Yes; and the acceding to that strategy by the Democrats. Which includes the gradual withdrawl from

themes of economic justice for *all* to "this is all we can get," bringing us to the point we're at today -- fighting over pieces of a shrinking pie (shrinking not because the country is poorer, but because the ruling class is taking bigger & bigger pieces) -- and using a "Democratic" discourse in which the dismantlement of the public sector and the turning over of the wealth it created is taken for granted, the only debate is about how much.

And that's part of the reason for the fall-away of "white men" from the Democratic Party.

Here at DU I've several times brought up the fact that black workers are disproportionately employed in education and the public sector, and are disproportionately affected as that sector is dismantled. Even out of proportion to their greater representation in these professions, as, for example, schools first targeted for "reform" tend to be poor and black-majority, with higher percentages of minority teachers than even in education as a whole.

Many people here don't seem to want to look at this kind of structural/systemic analysis -- particularly when the policies in question are being supported by a black President. I'll also note that some of the people most vociferously and personally attacking posters over their "white privilege" are, on other threads, promoting the neo-liberal free trade line and attacking American workers for their poor work ethic, poor skills, poor education, etc.