I’ve never heard someone say the N word in person until today I think. One minority (aboriginal) telling me how something about blacks but using the N word instead of blacks/African-american.
There are a lot of other smaller instances I’ve seen in my personal life too.
I’ve never seen Indian versus Pakistan racism, but I would at least get why that might happen, since history.
In public policy, the majority (caucasians) are prob the most racist here, but in casual conversation I might hear more minority vs minority racism. I think this partially might be because caucasians have it drilled into them (my city) that they have to not be racist in convo?
I’ve never understood why some minority groups didn’t come out to support black lives matter (here), but it seems to look like bc they don’t care to help out blm bc its not explicitly minority-name-here lives matter
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What do you have in mind about that? I’ve read a bit about it, the general consensus seems to be and get people focus on class struggle instead of racial struggle.
Straight up, racial struggle is more obvious(ex you can tell what skin color someone has from far away). And most people are focused on the more obvious stuff, like trying not to be homeless under capitalism.
I just saw your comment now, sorry about that.
Honestly I am not too sure either. I need to read more, but I do feel like education is a large part of it. And what I mean by that is education through all channels: school and a revolutionary party curriculum.
I personally would not really put it in terms of ‘class’ or ‘race’ struggle because I think it tries to delineate an issue that isn’t clearly seperated into neat little pieces. Race and class are intertwined, which I tried to convey in the first comment. It is pretty much useless to seperate them.
But like you said, we can easily focus on the ‘obvious’ stuff and pivot towards the real issues. Racial solidarity I think occurs when the two parties realise that they have more in common (ie. victims of capitalism) than focusing on liberal identity politics.
no worries, we got irl lives to live!
This might be an angle we could play