"Read Settlers" is a meme, but it's also a true meme. You should read it, or read other things about this thesis regarding the white working class in the US (I've heard other Marxists have since improved on Sakai's thesis but I don't know who they are).
White Americans are doubling down on the racism. As white settler colonialism is starting to face just a little bit of opposition (like teaching kids that maybe the US isn't a perfect, God-blessed country), they are losing their minds over the idea of losing even a tiny bit of their privileges. This is still a perfectly material explanation. White folks have enjoyed an incredible level of privilege since the beginning of this country and they will fight viciously to keep all of it.
IMO the bulk of white Americans are a lost cause. Not to say white folks can't be revolutionary (I'm white), but I think we probably should be spending our very limited time and resources on folks outside the imperial core break from western imperialism, and focus on the oppressed within the core. Any white Americans who want to join in are welcome but any concession to white supremacy is unacceptable.
Edit: to clarify, I'm not saying the Dems lost because racism or whatever. I don't care if the Dems win or lose, it doesn't matter. My point is much more about using electoral results and the campaigns that precede them to see where winds are blowing. It seems that "CRT" and fear-mongering about crime (and thus the need to fund even more cops) was a very effective message in appealing to large segments of the population - particularly the white population.
This isn’t accurate at all. Jim Crow and segregation still exist, it’s just been restructured so white moderates feel better about it.
Shaking hands with someone and smiling at them doesn’t matter if you support government death squads occupying their communities.
Examples: prison system, war on drugs, the ongoing genocide of BIPOC by the pigs, means-testing, ongoing denial of reparations, etc.
Meanwhile, you’re much less likely to be killed by a cop or denied housing for being a communist. Sure commies only rarely get elected to public office, but we’re all aware electoralism is a dead end.
I mean that we've made progress in the field of civil rights, Im not sayings its not still bad. You dont think integration helped at all?
Meanwhile there is a longer way to go towards building a racially diverse socialist America than a racially diverse capitalist America. Red-baiting is arguably becoming more effective than race-baiting. Antifa gets mentioned a lot in chud propoganda.
Pal, I did not say that. I said People Of Color in this country are less “tolerated” than communists.
People of color get fucked over by the state and then get gaslit into being told rascism is over in America. I am not trying to say this.
I am trying to say that communism as a theory is farther from acceptence than the theory of racial tolerance
Maybe. In Amerika they’re pretty much linked to the extent I’m not sure they can be separated. Amerikan culture is deeply entrenched and built upon apartheid.
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Idk, I just think is easier to talk to coworkers about how shitty the boss is, instead of how white he is and that should be the premise of organizing. Thank u for coming to my TED (turner is literally a confederate apologist) Talk.
That’s a step of it and necessary to deprogram and make progress. The reality of it being easier to talk about class than race with other white workers also demonstrates what I'm talking about.
Not just that. Integration was a failure. Most of the US is still pretty heavily segregated