What good is economic justice, if I don't have the social justice to access and keep it?

[JCanete]

127. I didn't say it would, but I did suggest that fighting back in this class war, if we use the right

messaging, CAN dis-arm the rhetoric that attempts to blame people of color and immigrants for some people's angst and hardship. There is a lot of a-priori misconception built into racism for a lot of people. Yeah, when you move up the chain of economics, people hold onto their bigotry often enough because it helps them to justify their wealth amidst poverty, but in the middle class and lower class, the issues right now are of what people are losing and who they are willing to blame for it, and who right wing media is telling them to blame for it. If we tell them who they really need to blame for it, and if we keep pounding how they are being played by divisive rhetoric by people laughing their asses off to the bank...and if we show them an actual alternative...they may just try it.

It isn't everything. Of course it isn't. And we don't have to and SHOULD NOT, as I've already said, try this first and then introduce the social equality issues...that is not an acceptable nor effective path. If you already accept that economic suffering entrenches these things, then you have to admit that the way out of this quagmire is to address these issues hand in hand, especially since they are so intertwined. You can't leave the economic message out any more than you can leave the social justice message out.


And if you think anything is a more powerful force than the money, I totally disagree. Money makes changing one's mind possible. People with money who want to keep it, or steal or amass more "legitimately" etc. ultimately don't get so caught up on race...not overall. It is astonishing just how malleable people's beliefs can be if one belief is superior to one previously held, when it comes to the green. Yes, some are deeply bigoted. There may even be a number of them who's whole identity is defined by their racism and no money is worth abandoning that for them....but for the most part, racism is awesome to them because it creates whole populations of exploitable people that nobody defends or watchdogs for. On top of that, they are the perfect scapegoat or excuse for all kinds of power and money grabs.

If we don't rail against the machinery...if we don't tell people to look behind the curtain, we will never undo this.