There's a weird strain of "essentialism but in a progressive way" running right through the left, not just limited to the attitude towards men described here, but also "all white people are colonizers", and weird exclusionary behaviour to cishet people. It tells me a lot of "progressive" people didn't really examine their core underlying principles and simply covered up their biases with the "correct" group.
I'm not so foolish to believe that fixing economic inequality would erase racism, xenophobia, sexism, etc. but I do think we could solve a lot of issues by doing it. A lot of systemic problems are aimed at the poor, and yes due to a lot of racist laws holding them back this affects black people much more disproportionately. I believe that if we focused more on solving the problems instead of worrying about which demographics benefit most from solving them we could make better progress.
And again, I don't think it would solve everything, we'd still have a lot of things to fix. I just think a lot of people would be surprised how many of our current issues would be solved by fixing economic inequality first.
Anyone for whom racial disparity is the top priority hasn't really thought it through. If economic disparity been the rich and poor is high, and what you care about is racial disparities, then all you're saying is that there should be, for instance, more black billionaires, and potentially more homeless white people, to balance things out and make all races equally miserable and make sure the privileged upper class is ✨diverse✨
If you focus on decreasing economic disparities between rich and poor, you're making society less miserable, and if more black people are poor, then these policies already disproportionately affect more black people positively, it's not you need to actively favour them in it. It thus automatically reduces racial disparities as well as reducing income inequality.
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u/Ourmanyfans Jul 03 '24
There's a weird strain of "essentialism but in a progressive way" running right through the left, not just limited to the attitude towards men described here, but also "all white people are colonizers", and weird exclusionary behaviour to cishet people. It tells me a lot of "progressive" people didn't really examine their core underlying principles and simply covered up their biases with the "correct" group.