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Americans fixate on skin colour and forget that class is far more important

• ceejayoz 7y ago
  People pushing that argument tend to pretend there's not a significant interlinking between race and class in America.
  • microcolonel 7y ago
    Isn't that a strong argument for class as a better means for analysis? I mean, if they're so interlinked, why not avoid the pitfalls of racialism?
    • oarabbus_ 7y ago
      There are people alive today who's parents or grandparents lived for a time without civil rights. I don't think disregarding their experience is the correct direction to take.
      • microcolonel 7y ago
        That's not the point I was addressing.
      • dang 7y ago
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