The times, they are a-changing

I mean multiple things could be true. It's not either/or. Class warfare and white supremacy are both happening.

I mean, I get the point, and the people he’s talking about are very gullible.

However, even if we were all happy and had our needs taken care of, there are still trash goblins among us that would find a reason to ruin that sense of peace and harmony over some dumb shit like white supremacy.

I think the funniest example of this is how when a black person moves into a predominantly white neighborhood/community the folks living there start to move no matter the economic situation and place themselves in a more precarious financial situation with a bigger mortgage and their over-employment hanging by a thread. All because they want to maintain the value of their equity, but ignoring the fact that they’re just reducing said equity by putting themselves into a worse place under a new contract with a higher interest rate, etc. etc. all while a massive layoff is secretly looming just right around the corner.

The perception of ‘power’ is actually completely given away via their own fear of being equal to others who don’t look like them.

I get the point, but white supremacy definitely exists. It's just that a lot of white supremacists aren't ultra wealthy. There definitely are people who believe white is superior, and push narratives like the great replacement and believe in eugenics.

The elite definitely use that to their advantage though. So both things are true simultaneously

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking around privilege and I’ve come to the realization that labelling someone else as privileged is all around a bad way to solve issues. If it is, in fact, the problem, they would be incapable of realizing it.

Privilege isn’t “I get what you don’t” or “I can do what you can’t,” it’s the idea of waking up and being able to choose what you do of your own accord. Anything you assume you’re allowed to do is privilege.

When you assume you can do something and someone else stops you, it’s not just an obstacle, it’s a check to your privilege. Some decide “that’s a boundary” and others decide “that’s unfair.” That’s what happened with ICE, that’s what happened with the Civil Rights movement, Suffrage, etc., but somehow we still haven’t found a clear way to explain privilege in society.

It’s not just a race thing. Race is one medium that privilege expresses itself, and a recently important one at that. Class/wealth has been a perpetual dividing line between people within a society. Wealth is leverage in a society that the privileged assume extends to everything, but that itself is entitlement.

We wouldn’t have money without a government, and we couldn’t have government without people, but the ultra-wealthy are happy to sacrifice both in pursuit of wealth. It’s a doomed system. They’re just implicitly reinventing classism by defining wealth, not utility or efficiency, as important.

Long rant, but I agree with this guy for the most part.

Honestly with that smooth ass voice id just agree with anything he said

White Supremacy will never lead to prosperity.

But the belief in White Supremacy is sadly very real.

That would make sense if black people (or people of color in general) had access to the same ultra-wealthy status as the other's, which we know doesn't happen.

Top 10 richest people are all white and mostly all American.

THANK YOU I have been so infuriated at everyone acting like this is NEW.

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