• uniqueid198x@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Naw, it’s more like these systems were built by elites to create conditions favorable to themselves. Racism in its modern form was a long term project to prevent tax revolters and enslaved people from joining up, at least in the US. Billionaires today still benefit from and create these conditions, so I find the meme pretty valid. It’s not that bigotry is less important, it’s that they are the same thing. You can’t fight the economic fight without fighting the racial justice fight… You’ll just undercut yourself. You need the gender equality flight and the immigrants rights fight and the disability rights s fights too… Leaving out anyone gives the billionaires an opportunity to undercut and win.