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LWolf

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7. It's been

Reply to rhett o rick (Reply #6)

Fri Jun 24, 2016, 07:10 PM

Jun 2016

a neoliberal strategy to separate social justice from economic justice. That allows them to be "socially liberal" enough to hang on to liberal America while pursuing economic policy that increases income gaps which, not so coincidentally, negatively affects the 99%, and PoC to a much greater degree.

I see it everywhere, an insistence that an issue is all about one or the other. Disintegration of reality.

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Cross-posted from African American Group: 'racial rules' widen economic inequality for PoC [View all] YoungDemCA Jun 2016 OP

This is why I am not interested in any revolution that ignores affirmative action bravenak Jun 2016 #1

+1 nt brer cat Jun 2016 #2

Somehow, I feel like I may have heard this before LWolf Jun 2016 #3

+1,000,000 ... Trajan Jun 2016 #4

Deja Moo Hydra Jun 2016 #5

As we lose ground in the struggle for economic justice it hurts the minorities the worst. rhett o rick Jun 2016 #6

It's been LWolf Jun 2016 #7

Yes I agree completely. nm rhett o rick Jun 2016 #8

Not just racial attitudes and practices, but classism is as big a problem Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2016 #9