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leftstreet

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Reply to gulliver (Reply #2)

Thu Oct 30, 2025, 11:38 AM

Oct 30

It just ends up reinforcing racism

"But don't you SEE? It's whites who are suffering!"

There's no win in that argument. It's not a gotcha.
It's an unspoken agreement that nonwhites suffering isn't anything to panic about, and it diverts the conversation away from class and wages

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