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  • [–] 70 points 1 month ago

    Later in her statement:

    We have a moral obligation to use our privilege and platforms to protect children and human rights.

    She has been blasted 24/7 for not “staying in her lane”, so I think she understandably wants to draw a direct causal line explaining why this “is her lane”.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    the anglosphere is the primary driver of the genocide happening in gaza rn

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Nobody is preventing others from donating as well. This is about calling out the anglosphere for their inaction.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Reading comprehension would have brought you to that explanation yesterday.

    Ms Rachel calling on wealthy white celebrities to donate in no way means that no one else can donate.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    "The way people higher up our social hierarchies are reliably listened to over those lower down these unjust rankings is itself a major injustice. And it’s a pernicious everyday fact of life under oppressive systems like patriarchy and white supremacy. But there’s a right way and a wrong way to respond to the situation as a more privileged person. The right way involves speaking up when others who are less privileged won’t be heeded in the same way, and then using your power and privilege to amplify the voices of the marginalized folks who’ve long been shouting into the void. A wrong way is speaking over those who are better positioned to understand the issues due to their lived experience. But there’s another wrong way too: maintaining a scrupulous silence."

    "When powerful and privileged white people speak in defense of Black and brown people subject to state violence and colonization and genocide, there’s often a long overdue moment of reckoning."

    Source

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    White people continuing to not recognize their privilege. A tale as old as time.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Give it some time. More reasonable voices may pop in here :)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    I doubt that time is in Lemmy's side -- the Epstein class's brainworms have proven to be self sustaining enough to trigger episodes like piefed and tesseract's attempts to suppress leftist content so it's only a matters of time until something sticks -- presuming that it hasn't already happened.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 month ago* (12 children)

    If every white NFL owner donated $1 million, they'd make $30 million. Their net worths would go down by 0%

    https://www.nfl.com/photos/team-owners-of-the-nfl-09000d5d824c9f3c#c45018dc-a23b-460a-a61e-d5c44840c095

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Ok but you could just say NFL owner without the white in this case. I'd never imagine them to live in a ghetto no matter their race. The fact that they're (probably, havent checked the link yet) all white does not mean I don't associate the ownership part with wealth. Wealth is dirty no matter the color.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    30 out of 32 NFL owners are white billionaires. All colluding to prevent somebody from using their stadiums to give support to brown people that are being mass murdered by other white people.

    I also find it funny that if you click the link, the first person in the list is the only non white owner. What are the odds.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    Ok that must be a football thing then. I'm not american so that's not a context I'd think about.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    Well, this is the entire story we're commenting on. The billionaire NFL owners own these stadium, and are working together to prevent Macklemore from spreading his message.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Yeah but to the rest of us its just sportsball and we have no reason to know it's a very racist sport. Meanwhile we have billionaire owners of our own sportsball teams in all colors and we still think they're nasty.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    While everybody today is free and there are no laws around race, so much damage was done from both slavery and segregation. And even after the civil rights movement, black people were still kept down through laws that were created to keep black people down and police officers actively going after those communities.

    The fact that your awful billionaires are a diverse group shows how much race has been an issue in America. And this story is an example of how it still is an issue.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 month ago (32 children)

    I'm impressed, I haven't seen white fragility this fragile since the George Floyd uprising

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago (31 children)

    There's a comment crying about white lives on every single one of these posts.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (30 children)

    Of course there is. For a leftist space, lemmy seems to have a lot of it. It's disappointing

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Got a lot of libs who think they are progressives in these parts because they are marginally less bad than Trump supporters and their ilk

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    You can also count on two hands the amount of them who won't gleefully gloat at nazi violence as punishment for not conforming to the whims of their DNC masters. The masked Gesta/pol/ just shot your wife and put your children in a small cage? Welp, shouldn't have ruined brunch

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (21 children)

    A fatal mistake for leftists is to narrow in on only class. Class is extremely important, but it's not everything. As working class people, we have to acknowledge the harm that occurs to people in minority groups. If our class-based politics aren't intersectional with queer, black, brown, women, and other political minorities, we will not achieve a classless society

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (16 children)

    You should read

    -W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America

    -Oliver C. Cox, Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics

    -Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

    -Lise Vogel, Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Toward a Unitary Theory

    Racial and Gender discrimination is a direct product of class relations not a second system operating alongside it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    That doesn't mean we ignore racial and gender discrimination to focus only on class.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (7 children)

    Nah, we can start with all of it, we don't need to sideline gender and racial discrimination in favor of class first. We've been there, we've done that. We elevated pieces of shit like Cesar Chavez despite him raping women and little girls because class issues are most important. Leftists make a dire mistake at elevating class over all other discrimination based on faulty readings of leftist ideology.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    I don't think you're really understanding what I'm saying.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (5 children)

    I understand what you're saying and I don't think you misunderstand it. I think that there are large swaths of leftists who misunderstand what it means to build on class issues while including gender and racial issues. That we should only focus on class issues and then once that's solved, we can move on to racial and sexist issues. It's a faulty line of thinking. We can move in tandem on these issues and we should.

    There is a history of highlighting class issues over all others to the detriment of the movement, like with Cesar Chavez.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    I already said I think you understand the point I'm making, but there are a lot of leftists that would read your comments and think that we need to focus solely on class first before anything else.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Ok so you agree then that when analysing these issues we have to start with their relation to class? That gender and racial discrimination are at their core subsets of the class struggle which makes up the bedrock upon which they are built?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    I agree, but in practice many leftists never come back to gender and racial discrimination when talking about any of this - it's always class solidarity over all else. That argument is here in this very thread - that women and POC are inherently being protected and fought for within the class war and that's not quite right. Oftentimes racial and sexual discrimination are a mere afterthought, but we cannot abandon or ignore our sisters and brothers lest we lose them in this fight. Rockslayer is better at expressing this than I am admittedly.

    That's how we end up allowing our leaders in this fight to subjugate and rape women and little girls while holding him up as a shining example of working class rights.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Yes, but the system of class oppression manifests differently for these diverse groups, which means that all individuals will have a unique perspective on these systems of class oppression. A queer person has a different experience from a black person. A black trans woman will have a unique experience that is intersectional to queer, black, and women's struggles for liberation.

    For us to dismantle class oppression, we need to understand and address how class is used to oppress minorities

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    In that sense, I agree. If we start on the basis of class, we'll understand the dynamics at play that drives discrimination

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    we’ll understand the dynamics at play that drives discrimination

    We already know if we stop and listen to women and POC about these issues.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Sure, why not. Celebrities by definition have the attention of many people. I just don't see the point of narrowing that down even further.

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