Can We Have A Toughtful/Respectful Discussion Of Civil Rights Versus Income Inequality ???

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71. We've had this difference before, allow me to clarify.

People of color and with different sexual identities suffer disproportionately more from oppression by the dominant culture (s).

However, that dominant culture is increasingly, though not exclusively, marked by asymmetrical power dynamics- sometimes by sheer numbers and other times by greater economic and political strength.

My position isn't that race doesn't matter, it most certainly does.

My positions is that race AND economic oppression BOTH matter and are so commonly found together that we can identify commonality among a broad range of oppressed groups.

Thus, gays and lesbians and blacks and physically impacted and undocumented people ALL suffer and have a righteous grievance.

If they can form a coalition, and it can direct that coherent energy like a laser uses coherent light, that coalition can burn up the oppressors.

If, on the other hand, each group insists that forming a coalition somehow diminishes their pain and their plight, then it's far less likely to produce results.

The RW loves this, the powers that be love that the oppressed are balkanized in their efforts, don't speak the same language, don't fight the same battle. That makes it easy on them.

Groups can form to fight together without losing their identity.