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While I agree minorities are going to feel the brunt of climate change I’m not sure in modern political contexts the motivation is racial. There’s deep, growin
by spamizbad 1y ago
While I agree minorities are going to feel the brunt of climate change I’m not sure in modern political contexts the motivation is racial.
There’s deep, growing resentment towards the entire so-called “Professional Managerial Class” - things like wind and solar power are a byproduct of their accomplishments. To kill these things off is a way to stick their finger in the eyes of undesirables; the fact that the externalities of this vengeful decision will mostly be felt by minorities is merely a convenient coincidence for the perpetrators
- Forgeties79 1y agoYou have to remember we live in a nation that poured cement into public pools across the country just so they wouldn’t have to share them with black Americans. I don’t think people realize how many private schools exist purely because of reintegration. People decided they would rather build new schools and pay private tuition on top of the taxes they pay for public education. Again, all of this was just so they wouldn’t have to share those schools with black Americans. This is all recent history. Many of the people who did this are still alive.
- selimthegrim 1y agoI hear the Audubon pool was really nice too.
- Herring 1y agoThis is unfortunately easy to disprove. Find your nearest republican and ask them whether they think climate change is "woke". Anything progressive comes up against cultural and racial resentments.
- intermerda 1y agoIt doesn't have to be explicitly racist. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/ https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwa... Lee Atwater would be proud. It started with Reagan and is used with exceptional effectiveness by the current Republican Party.