That's what intersectionality is about, and why fascists focus on driving wedges between groups
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Not everything is about fascists.
You're right, it's also about the capitalists who put them in power.
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This specifically is though.
Why do you think the fascists try so hard to keep them divided and fighting each other?
Why do you believe fascists are the only parties working to, and actively benefiting from, division in human populations?
Because the companies and ultra rich contribute financially to fascists to take away our rights, and drive wedges between people. What are you talking about if not oligarchy and fascism? Like, some kind of softball league?
Not everyone is a fascist. There are many types of far right ideologies
They all want the same thing, control of what you can do, say, think, and believe. And will do anything in their power to get it. Regardless of their particular flavor of fascism, it's still fascism.
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Welcome to the radical left.
Well, unless you're some kind of Democrat. In which case, get your bougie, genoside lovin' ass outta here. Only the real leftists will be allowed under the banner.
How do you define a "real leftist"?
Good question!
What are you talking about?
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I find it to be a more centrist position considering the amount of purity testing required to pass on either side of the political spectrum in the modern age.
Hence divide and conquer.
And even more people under the same social class should band together that would have a much bigger majority
This assumes the minority groups can all agree on things in order to “come together.”
This assumes the minority groups can all agree on things in order to “come together.”
Do you know what a moot point is?
I do, and my point wasn’t. Not all minority groups agree on everything just because they’re minorities. The world is a tad more complicated than that. Besides, what are they “coming together” to do? Overthrow the “majority?” Does that automatically assume that the majority is wrong and minorities are right just because they’re minorities? Again, the world’s just not that simple.
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I suspect you've never hung out with enough different minority groups to understand the scope of difficulty. I mean FFS the Latinos vote against immigration, The poor vote against social services. Even when you run into a minority group that is doing things in their best interest, they're not inclined to stick their neck out for people outside there subgroup. Nobody else is taking care of them so they take care of themselves and they give no F's about the other minorities
The concept that all the minorities together aren't a minority anymore is true at some level, I think you've got a better chance of having white leftists stand up for them then them standing up for each other.
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That's not how that works.
Hell why stop with every minority group combined? Throw the majority group in there too, now everybody's on the same side! Why didn't I think of this sooner??
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And if sunshine and farts were money I'd be rich as fuck. Fantasies are fun.
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The oppressive class usually isn't a majority (capital owners/rich, religious fanatics, morning people), but they dictate so much more of our lives, what to feel, who to hate - so much so that they make the majority work for them against the minorities (that don't affect the lives of the majority in the slightest - but that's just how the oppressors retain control & power).
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Getting every group to do one thing together is harder than you think.
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All these minorities may share a common problem yet it's unlikely they have the same vision for the solution.
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This is why many people I know have started referring to themselves as members of the "global majority" rather than "minority".
But also, yeah this is a class war and if the lower classes stopped perpetuating the division that the wealthy/powerful have forced on us, we could all make everything better. Eat the rich.
This is a lesson that the religious fundamentalists currently running the USA have weaponised.
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I wish I could have the courage to collect downvotes like you
And in your own thread!
Thank you for caring about a metric that doesn't matter for me. Do you worry about everyone's down votes or just the pretty ones like me?
Aren't there more women than men in the world
(And I'm ignoring the million other thimgs I could say rn bc I dont have the emergyctk type)
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My hyper coalition an-cap-com people's democratic uniparty dictatorship will save the west.
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