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Showing Original Post only (View all)If you are not intersectional, you are not a progressive. Period. End of discussion. Card revoked. [View all]
I don't care if you enact a 100% tax on incomes over a million and bust up every Wall Street bank and enact a 30k a year guaranteed income. If you do not vociferously support civil rights for the marginalized, the literal fucking damnes de la terre, you are not a progressive, socialist, leftist, liberal, or anything but a welfare chauvinist.
You want a purity test? Here's your fucking purity test.
When it comes to winning elections in certain districts, it's okay to not be a progressive. But if you do not fight for the marginalized on every issue, don't fucking call yourself a progressive.
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If you are not intersectional, you are not a progressive. Period. End of discussion. Card revoked. [View all]
forjusticethunders
Apr 2017
OP
Sounds like you've jumped to conclusions that have nothing to do with the OP
emulatorloo
Apr 2017
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