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Is the left wing not supposed to be racist? I've heard some interesting views from some old school union guys. I don't really think of racism as a strictly pa
by faeriechangling 4y ago
Is the left wing not supposed to be racist? I've heard some interesting views from some old school union guys.
I don't really think of racism as a strictly partisan thing, the biggest partisan divide is regarding who the mob is most likely to be racist towards.
- ReptileMan 4y ago>Is the left wing not supposed to be racist? I've heard some interesting views from some old school union guys. Blue collar racism is much more inclusive than white collar D&I. The expectation is to be able to take and give shit there.
- 8f2ab37a-ed6c 4y agoLeft wing very-online activists and blue collar workers are mostly disjoint sets.
- GrumpySloth 4y agoIn particular anti-semitism is usually associated with the right, but it has a pretty long tradition on the left as well. The 60s in the communist block were a good display of that, but also the 40s in France (Tony Judt wrote a couple books about that, e.g. the French Communist Party, as depicted in The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century).
- tayistay 4y agoWell the recent leaked LA city council tape should dispel any notions that left wing politicians aren’t racist. In fact the race-essentialism of the left is laid bare in that tape. “He’s with the blacks” etc.