2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What Black Lives Matter Gets Wrong About Bernie Sanders - Reuters [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,023 posts)such from it there is virtually nothing left and could not exist otherwise.
Without exploitation and otherizing the whole thing collapses, there has to be essentially slave classes be they blacks, prison populations, FOXCONN type workers, Indians working the cotton fields or sleeping under a sewing machine, or Vietnamese shrimps in subsistence servitude and the cognitive dissonance threatens whole arrangement if people being plundered and abused are considered as they are as human being just like us (no matter who the us is), empathy will tend to leak in and the exploitation won't hold up because most people aren't that wicked to the core but with insulation and division along with payoff and advantage blind spots can be taken advantage of to make it either okay or even more successfully out of sight and out of mind.
Even a thought experiment of say just looking at white America and thinking this is how it would be without racism is a false premise because it doesn't shake out the same without the artificial under classes that allow "privilege", the system would have to greatly reorganize to create a large exploitable underclass to be extracted from, there has got to be an ism or or unprotected migrants or colonies or "developing regions" to do the slave work in slave conditions for as close to nothing as possible. Someone has to be the undesirable caste to be the "at least you have it better than them" role to maintain support for the system or at least acceptance and there has to be somewhere you can be threatened to fall to.