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In reply to the discussion: My privilege rant. It bugs the hell out of me to read these [View all]HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)class threads because that they're afraid, come the revolution, that posters in class threads will turn on them when they seize power in the name of an anti-class rev?
that seems kind of unlikely. unlikely that the revolution is coming anytime soon, unlikely that DU posters will meet in real space when it does, unlikely that if we did we'd know each other as DUers, etc. What does a discussion at DU have to do with any of that hypothetical?
also unlikely that 'once the classist fight is over, the fight for racial equality continues'.
as all the 'isms' are created out of the 'need' to get others to do the scutwork and heavy lifting and then steal the fruits, and the rationalization for that oppression. so if class is actually extinguished in all its manifestations, racism is extinguished as well.
The origins of 'racism' are clear in the historical record.
Also there are non-racial correlates of the same phenomenon; e.g. in Japan there is a caste-like group (burakumin) that occupies a social & economic space analogous to the place of blacks in the US; yet they are racially and ethnically Japanese.
The origins of their status are well-known, and fairly recent, and it was state power that transformed them from Japanese who happened to do certain work into a hereditary caste of despised persons who *had to* do certain work, couldn't live outside their ghettos, couldn't marry outside their caste, were considered dirty, criminal and stupid, were very poor, etc.
And there are many such cases.
The privilege meme seems to me a ruling class creation, actually. Because it disappears those who instigated and profited from the slave trade most, profited multi-generationally, down to the present day, created the institutional practices that held this construct in place, attacked interracial attempts at solidarity, etc.