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Originally Posted by Adder
Thank you, Comrade, but I think you have more reading to do.
ETA: To be less flippant, yes, that phenomenon happens. The opposite also happens. (White) brosocialists frequently use class as an excuse to wave away their own prejudices (which we all have). Which is why it is so important to listen to other voices.
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Agreed on ETA point. But as an experiment, talk about Bernie with some upper middle class decently educated folks you know. There's a sharp recoiling. They'll argue he just isn't realistic, or he can't win. This translates to, "I'm all for forced social change, but not the kind that will impact me."
The same people we all know who will talk up these "efforts at equity" are the same people who'll ask you to write a letter to help their kid get into a school. "You know a guy on the alumni board, right?" The same people who hire SAT tutors for their kids. The same folks who pull up all the ladders behind them, but excuse all of that by observing the catechism of "equity policies."
And their MAGA opponents are almost identically similar. Singing you an endless song about the forgotten rural "left-behinds."
Hillbilly Elegy fans. But then ask them, "Where were you folks for the last hundred years while poverty raged in the inner cities?"
It's all the same song: "Equity forced on thee, but not upon me."
