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racism, sexism, ant-gay and anti-islam interests are fiscal interests

• rayiner 4y ago
  You’re close. They’re related, but the causation runs the other way. Structural changes in the economy facilitate changes in views towards those things. It’s not coincidental that, for example, my contractor who earns his living lifting drywall over his head has different views of gender roles than people who make a living doing knowledge or creative work. To turn the example around. people in my dad’s village in Bangladesh—where you need to have kids to work on the farm—all believe in traditional procreative marriage. Is that a justification for ignoring their economic concerns? It’s a very weird kind of “liberalism” that holds people’s attitudes arising out of their lived experience against them.