i dont know, maybe im off base completely, but this is very reactionary, no? can someone in good faith argue something even remotely similar to this and be right?
edit: https://twitter.com/PurelyPurgatory/status/1319664557791629312?s=20 heres this take too by someone with hammer/sickle in their bio? WTF?! i dont wanna feel like im throwing ppl under the bus but im legitimately shocked by this.
"how do you have a 300+ year head start and still end up homeless?"
Yeah it's a hell of a thing it's actually called capitalism
This is just the neoliberal "lazy poors" talking point dressed up in a woke costume
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_happens_when_you_educate_liberals_about_white_privilege
Intersectionality without class is worse than useless, it is actively damaging.
This is clearly a "without milk" type of situation: :zizek-fuck:
Thesis: LGBTQ people are cancer.
Antithesis: White people are cancer.
Synthesis: Black Nazbol.edit: /r/stupidpol are far worse than class reductionists.
this was my takeaway, they still are relying on the assumption that poverty is still, at its core, a reflection of somebody's worth and ability to "work hard."
It's not intersectionality though. Intersectionality would be at least wondering whether the homeless white person is oppressed along some other axis like sexual orientation, gender, mental health, whatever.
This is what happens when liberals love talking about race but hate talking about class
apparently these people dont realize that a good number of white people dont have generational wealth
From my experience a decent amount of minorities think all white people are rich.
And a substantial amount of white people think all Jewish people are rich.
identity politics without anti capitalism really is just tribalism huh?
idk how to phrase this in a way that doesnt sound inherently fatalistic or accusatory but there's a portion of nonwhite communists or anarchists that aren't interested in organizing with white leftists or just other whites period and it just is what it is and this can only be shocking to you if you ignore the past 100 years of left organizing
honestly thats why i posted it on here becuase as crazy as the takes were, i DO understand why they wouldn't be interested in organizing with white people, like completely. but then framing white homeless people as "settler colonizers" and saying you wouldn't give them yourmoney is really punching down and reactionary. it was a head scratcher.
Oh my god, the white leftist grievance, Jesus fuckin christ here we go
Patronizing outraged entitlement based on unreasonable expectations, otherwise known as this thread
I think you and I are approaching this from similar standpoints actually, my point was that there's many ProBlack or nonwhite leftists that ultimately aren't interested in organizing with whites and the reaction in this thread stems mostly from primarily white/nonblack leftists that can't/are unwilling to grasp this
Maybe it's reasonable if the second person is talking about 300+ year old immortals who owned slaves
Yeah if I ever meet a homeless vampire I'm not giving him shit. Should have bought some IBM stocks back in the 1920s, Dracula.
umm actually sweaty all white people are responsible for capitalism they all met up in a big room and decided to create capitalism
