That’s what intersectionality is about, and why fascists focus on driving wedges between groups
If every minority group came together under the same banner they would be the majority, and rights would be much easier to attain for everyone.
Submitted 9 hours ago by Arkouda@lemmy.ca to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Witchfire@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Arkouda@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
Not everything is about fascists.
Fletcher@lemmy.today 8 hours ago
Why do you think the fascists try so hard to keep them divided and fighting each other?
Arkouda@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Why do you believe fascists are the only parties working to, and actively benefiting from, division in human populations?
P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
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?
dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Welcome to the radical left.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
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.
dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
What are you talking about?
Witchfire@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I’m uhh a Democrat in name only. My father was a Democrat and my voter registration says Democrat, but I don’t believe in their neoliberal values
Arkouda@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
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.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
The oppressive class usually isn’t a majority (capital owners/rich, 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 their lives in the slightest).
Arkouda@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
This doesn’t really change, or add, to my point does it?
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 hours ago
Change no, but it was my humble intention to add a little bit.
Understanding things/humans & why we behave bad is important imho.
spittingimage@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Getting every group to do one thing together is harder than you think.
Arkouda@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
Does that change my point?
spittingimage@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Hey, I just realised that if Brownian motion carries all the water molecules away together, I won’t need a towel after my shower.
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 8 hours ago
This is a lesson that the religious fundamentalists currently running the USA have weaponised.
gezginorman@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
This is a lesson that the religious fundamentalists currently running Turkey have weaponised.
robocall@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Bernie Sanders always talks about a multi racial coalition
Arkouda@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
It is at least a step in the right direction.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Probability not relevant under a dictatorship or first past the post elections, but…
See also electoral alliance
Arkouda@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
I don’t really see the parallel you are making.
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Aren’t there more women than men in the world
Arkouda@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
You tell me.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
that sound you heard was stephen miller getting cold sweats
d00phy@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
This assumes the minority groups cal all agree on things in order to “come together.”
Arkouda@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
Do you know what a moot point is?
rumba@lemmy.zip 12 minutes ago
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.
d00phy@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
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.