So as I've had my fair share of a lurking/grass-touching period and my brain being the 3 year old philosopher it is, I have collected questions overtime that I haven't quite be able to fit in anywhere. As they would have no use to me wasting away in a notepad, I decided I would share them with you guys in order to develop opinions. You can answer any or none at all, just releasing the valve so my brain doesn't explode.
-Even though the Scots-Irish are now culturally absorbed into American "Whiteness", is there still a subconscious bias against them/colonial scars?; Of course not the "Irish" politicians and oligarchs, or someone refusing a Big Mac because it was made by a Paddy--the slur, not to be confused with the bun, which is reasonably rejected as that middle bun is but a cosmetic deviation from a McDouble to make you spend more and causes serious TMJ upon unhinging the jaw for consumption-- but the bias against the Scot-Irish in the guise of classism, with treatment of rednecks and "white trash". Now I myself have never lived in the south, but I have my own experience of being poor and surrounded by rural fly over America. Forgetting the transference of ethnic prejudices into classist ones, the actual territory of predominately Scots-Irish aren't known for their economic strength. Appalachia and the South are still deeply poverty stricken and lagging behind the rest of the States. I do not mean this blurb to be whining as an "irish american"(mutt) or anything, but more so an example for the colonized and marginalized of how being "accepted" by the state isn't the same as empowered and liberated with reparations. The libs will just come up with new terms for stereotypes and ignore any real change.
Wasn't much of a question was it hahaha. Sorta ties into second question (you'll see)
-Does being blue collar or "working class" (American sense) tend to bring social bigotry itself, or has the state purposely planted seeds of bigotry into the minds of manual labourers knowing they posses a revolutionary character which would be in deadly combination with liberation groups for the marginalized? Frankenstein question, has the petite bourgeoisie and intelligentsia been "focused" on social change because it separates them from the working class? (In the image sense for their own classist reasons, but also in the political solidarity sense with pressure from the state). Why you find bigotry in areas heavy with the working class and poverty, regardless of the demographic make up there. Also the natural drag of the rural behind the urban.
This one is less of a theory question but more of a personal one.
-For you guys in the imperial core with me, do you ever wonder why it was us who happen to be the lucky few who have become Marxist Leninist and have managed to dodge all the propaganda, especially with the "left" bootlicking? Is this some weird destiny of being born in the Empire, Living through the empire's death, and actually being able to see it while others around can't. To be ahead of the tides as Imperialism turns inward. Why us be the seeds to plant and grow the resistance within the bloating belly of the beast before it bursts? I know it's not using DiaMat, but it feels surreal. Not just in this weird destiny talk, but seriously what made us able to be radicalized materially? We are so few, but what was the common thread?
I think I was supposed to have more, but if I come across some I'll let you know, feeling burnt out from this lol.
Edit: Knew I was forgetting something >:)
-How come the Far Right have enough emotional intelligence to parrot leftists talking points, or misconstrue them, while being absolute bigoted pieces of shit themselves?
For the second one I think you might be overstating that this is the case regardless of demographics. Look up the demographics in a lot of American towns. There are plenty of poor midwestern working towns that have like 1 black person in them, for a lot of American built environments conscious separation by race was a guiding principle of planning and zoning. I think it's actually very easy and normal to develop solidarity across ethnic lines if you actually share a neighborhood and workplace with many kinds of people but American cities and towns were often built specifically to foreclose that possibility.
I think American history also gives a good illustration of the reality that racism and bigotry are not class delineated: the ruling classes here were historically the most invested in creating and propagating beliefs that made them superior to everyone else, many of the most vocal and 'thoughtful' racists in American history were bourgeois.
To say nothing of the fact that it's very easy for a rich white community in California to vocally be anti-racist while offering no resistance to the racist policies being pursued there. We might be giving the wealthy and educated libs more credit than they deserve by taking them at their word.