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Two soldiers on the front lines of the modern information war.
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Huh.
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Racism = no solidarity. No solidarity = no social welfare.
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Interesting, if a bit unweildy, explanation of organizing.
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Sean gives himself and Joe more cash. Go boys, go!
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Nicely done!
Racism = no solidarity; no solidarity = no social welfare.
Therefore, solidarity = colorblind, equal contributions to social welfare?
No racism isn’t the same thing as “colorblind.”
Clearly. And yet, liberal social welfare rhetoric like his almost always relies explicitly or implicitly on some vision of colorblindness.
In his concluding words, “Americans must once again show their ability to transcend group interests for a common national cause.”
To me, this reads, ‘Everyone [regardless of color] pitches in [equally? unequally? unclear] to progress toward a more perfect, less racist union, etc.’ Colorblindness. You get something different?
No, I read the common good argument as a way to reframe social democracy as a universalist project. I recognize that there’s a danger that this results in glossing over explicitly racial issues, but I think it’s also one of the only ways that you’ll see progress on a lot of the baseline economic issues that allow them to fester.