2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This primary solidified the Log-Cabinization of the Social Left [View all]Armstead
(47,803 posts)Convoluted academic/political analyses on how priorities are set are irrelevant.
The simple fact is that it is NOT mutually exclusive to pursue social (racial) and economic justice at the same time....Just the opposite. It's illogical to separate these things in an "can't do this til that." They exist as individual issues, but there is also plenty of overlap too.
Perhaps an individual or interest group focuses on their own priorities. Fine. That's not what this is about though.
And -- as the OP pointed out -- who loses out in the "economic" issues like gentrification? It isn't privileged white people at the short end of that stick.
To address your strange analogy -- No, economic justice will not solve the problem of someone who is f'ed up enough to throw a Molotov cocktail through the window. Obviously that would be a priority.
But, let's say someone who loses it because they lost a job and are homeless and "goes postal" and is desperate and goes around indiscriminately shooting people regardless of color. Wouldn't that be a momentary priority too?
And in the bigger picture, If POC who start dying alongside white people because of massive and intense heat waves, maybe that could be placed into the category of racial problem too.