• OOFshoot@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Honestly, if we could stop this cultural race war for like two seconds we’d have a way better society. I just went healthcare end high speed rail.

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      1 year ago

      Is there some reason that we can’t work to have a more equitable society racially and economically? It’s not a zero sum game, we can care about and accomplish more than one thing at a time…

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        1 year ago

        How would one sustainably protect/save the Jews (and all the other victimized groups) without first dismantling the Nazi regime?

        Sure you can free this camp and that camp without marching on Berlin, but if the machine, the source that propagates it and maintains it remains intact, you’re addressing a symptom of the primary cause and they’ll just build more camps.

        If you resolve one social wedge, they’ll stoke another in it’s place through the government they fully captured decades ago. Why do you think they’re actively unresolving decades settled resolutions through their Federalist Society judges?

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        Exactly. Even if the real villain was capitalism all along (spoiler: it is), we can’t abandon all of these battles along the way in hopes of winning the war in the end. The fight will take generations and we need to win ground on multiple fronts to have any hope of real, honest to goodness, change.

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        Reducing economical disparities will solve the so-called “racial” inequalities.
        Affordable education, housing and care for all don’t necessitate discrimination, even positive.
        When an university degree costs hundreds of thousands, the problem isn’t the ethnic makeup of the happy few who can afford it, it’s scarcity itself.
        European state manage to fund a higher education for pretty much all of those that care to try it, it is not an impossible dream.

        edit: to clarify, I don’t think ending affirmative action before making any general progress is a good idea or will do any good.
        just to keep eyes on the prize and be aware of diversion tactics.