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In reply to the discussion: No other candidate in this race has been as strong of an advocate for racial justice as Bernie has [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)But why the insistence that they are totally UNrelated?
It's not like only straight white men are affected by layoffs, wage cuts, benefits cuts, pension theft, downsizing and outsourcing.
Isn't redlining a perfect example of economic and social oppression intertwining?
And it's not as if people who speak out against those things aren't equally involved in struggles against bigotry and social oppression.
Yes, economic oppression also affects white men...but is there something wrong in creating a coalition that includes them as not only supporters of anti-oppression politics, but also people who have, in their own way, experienced oppression?
The need is to create a huge coalition for big change...if including economic oppression as an issue makes that coalition larger, what's the harm?