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Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world 10 months agoThat’s what I’m trying to say: it IS about both
I don’t think your argument comes off that way, but i guess that’s subjective.
The original article outlines how they’re pushing a bill to stop discriminatory pricing. That lower income areas and areas with fewer white people tend to have less tech / higher price. It then goes on with multiple quotes about race. And how people of color don’t have the same access.
The original comment says they don’t think it’s just race, that it’s a larger class issue.
You then start talking about how it IS race and is racist.
We know. The original article posed that angle. The comment you responded to said it was a broader problem. Youre coming back around to the race thing again, which sounds a lot like you’re saying the race thing is a bigger deal or something.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
TL;DR: Intersectionality is a thing and forcing the separation of intertwined issues is counterproductive as well as unjust.
I have consistently said that it’s both from the start. In fact, the original statement I took issue with was this:
My argument was and still is that it’s both and that ignoring the race component by pretending that it’s ONLY a class issue is both misleading and bad strategy.
Such bad strategy, in fact, that it was probably the biggest reason within the campaign’s control that Bernie Sanders didn’t become president in stead of Trump. His economic policies would have helped everyone except for billionaires and abusive anti-labor corporations, but he and the rest of the campaign didn’t make it clear enough to the black and brown voters in the South that economic justice is racial justice and vice versa.