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The hardest pill to digest for me is that the underclass is at its core reactionary and bigoted So I must choose between siding with them vs the elite or focusing on opposing bigotry  People might be inherently xenophobic and have personal biases built in or at minimum there might be a grain of truth in that  The mistakes are 1) conflating individual bigotries with reactionary politics, and 2) describing this broad human trait as applied to the working class specifically. If I choose the latter over the former people would say 'Jason is not a racist, he just hates poor people" or 'Jason thinks his disdain for the working class is better than yours' Furthermore, the underclass disproportionally is filled with minorities and are they all or even vastly bigots? No of course they aren't.  Helping the underclass is a way to by de facto opposing bigotry. Maybe both goals aren't mutually exclusive  Whenever the white working class gets too small a lot of minorities th...

 From Jacobin article with Dr Cornel West which I agree with DANIEL DENVIR I was recently talking to Wendy Brown about just that, and about how neoliberalism and empire has really remade human subjectivities. And something that we don’t talk about enough when discussing the roots of Trumpism is nihilism. We’re talking about fundamental ways of being in and relating to the world that have been profoundly deformed. But the flip side of that is this newly resurgent left, which emerged, I think, in large part from the contradictions between Obama’s promise and the dismal reality of his governance. What do you make of this long-standing bipartisan consensus around the American idea? Fracturing into so many pieces, both the nihilism on the Right, and the resurgent socialism on the Left. And yet, somehow, Biden, this human embodiment of a senescent liberal establishment politics, has emerged as the president to preside over what comes next? CORNEL WEST Well, I mean, I’m glad you raised t...

 Whiteness along with racism, and race itself are interrelated social fictions which serve a long term strategy by the ruling class of divide-and-conquer .They all have to be understood, and then dismantled entirely. https://jbattalora.com/white-people-did-not-exist-until-1681/

I find the concept of whiteness interesting as it constantly seems to be described differently by different people.  I think it's fairly simple to define who is definitely white, but it's not always easy. Is whiteness the color of a person’s skin? If so it is lots of Asians (in the east, west, and central) would be white, yet numerous Southern Europeans would be considered tanned Is whiteness a geographical type of conception (European=white)? If it is so, then Gypsies would be white, but Caucasians and Jewish people would not be Is whiteness a combo of factors? If that is the case then what war crimes have (for instance) Moldovans committed that can justify grouping them together with "the oppressors" When is a mixed race person at point to they are white or not white? Is the one drop rule unracist? Or is it based off of the upbringing (people with white skin tone with a few or more indigenous ancestry for example)? If that is true does a white kid whose adopted into...

  These anti communist lame-os probably think the communists bullied A.H into suicide and that Joseph Stalin was a bad meanie weenie. The USSR showed the fascists during WWII how ‘tolerant’ us leftists are to fascism and any similar ideology  This Tweet is similar to the central theme of J Goebbels’s propaganda. This Tweet is historic revisionism/alternate history and alternate facts  The VoCM foundation had me at the start of this Tweet, since I thought they were talking about Imperial Japan. I think that reassigning WWII’s start date to 1931 is a rationale but still off base narrative, except I have no clue what Moscow has to do with the Manchurian incident Yet they start by saying out that we consider the Sino-Japanese War to be a part of WWII, which somehow translates to ‘the war is the fault of one of the final major powers to be involved in that war’, after being invaded by, oops, the NDSAP Fascism was created as a reaction to communist and socialist uprisings like ...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/its-official-bernie-sande_b_7660226.html To be fair textbooks commonly describe socialism incorrectly so it isn't unreasonable to describe something not socialist like this as 'textbook socialism' Texas textbook socialism George W. Bush has done more evil to the world than anyone else alive today. He should not get to comment on the country that he destroyed.  Mike Grovel Gravel Institute (built using only gravel) I echo this Jacobin article on GWB and this analysis on this article over   here  and also see here