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In reply to the discussion: It tells us nothing at this point that HRC beats Bernie among women and poc. [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)But why does he have to say that the fight for economic justice doesn't matter to people denied social justice?
Most African Americans aren't Chris Rock.
Most LGBTQ people aren't Ellen Degeneres.
Most African American women aren't Oprah.
Most women aren't Angelina Jolie,
I'm not sure why you're so personally hostile to economic justice issues...they aren't "white only". People of all races, genders, and sexual orientations work for a living, are subject to wage cuts, benefit cuts, layoffs and the loss of their pensions.
Saying that doesn't diminish in the slightest the importance of the fight against bigotry, against police violence, against homophobia and trans phobia...it simply says that people in those fights are affected also by economic inequality and community abandonment just as they are affected by bigotry, violence and exclusion. If they are affected more viscerally by the latter things, that's one thing(and I fully accept that they are). But that doesn't mean that corporate dominance of life doesn't affect them, that greed and its consequences don't affect them(redlining, for example) or that it's possible to get an oppression-free society through alliances with Wall Street(it isn't-Wall Street is ALWAYS going to try to hold you down).
I want the biggest coalition for the broadest possible changes in this society...social AND economic...for freedom from oppression and freedom from want(which is its own form of oppression). I think that's what Bernie wants.
How does that concept disrespect victims of social oppression? They can't ultimately defeat oppression while market economics stays in place...because the market is always going to want social oppression to go on. Capitalism can't abide a land free from hatred-because that land will end up becoming anti-capitalist in the end. The social oppression is used to reinforce the economic oppression.