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Rebkeh

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10. From where I sit, there's not much difference

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 02:13 PM

Dec 2015

The problem is that equality is seen as zero-sum, a gain for blacks/poc is perceived as a loss for whites. Until white liberals and progressives admit this, own it and change it, equality is not going to mean the same to everybody.

Fascism is going to happen along racial lines, it already has.

We CANNOT take race out of the equation, even if it's just a social construct.

Racism is a reality, race is not.

On edit: the struggle the white working class is dealing with now is not new to us poc, it's been going on for hundreds of years. Now that whites are dealing with structural inequality, we can forge an alliance but not until everybody is honest about racism.

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Robert Reich: The Revolt of the Anxious Class [View all] marmar Dec 2015 OP

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Trump though has split with the elite orthodoxy on the trade deals bklyncowgirl Dec 2015 #5

I hear you Populist_Prole Dec 2015 #6

That article is well worth the read. Especially as he concludes that if it wasn't Trump, it would raccoon Dec 2015 #2

Yes Brainstormy Dec 2015 #3

As usual, he's right but Rebkeh Dec 2015 #4

I think that there is a difference between racism and anxiety jwirr Dec 2015 #9

From where I sit, there's not much difference Rebkeh Dec 2015 #10

I am not suggesting we take race out of the equation. I am jwirr Dec 2015 #11

That is one of the best Robert Reich pieces I have ever seen. jwirr Dec 2015 #7

K&R smirkymonkey Dec 2015 #8

It was a good article, but one thing he found didn't make sense... libdem4life Dec 2015 #12