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Help me dunk on my friend
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Don’t be too harsh he’s a cool dude, but he unfortunately has some capitalism good musk good sentiments that I’ve been trying to dismantle for some time now and i thought I’d ask for help with this.
Or you can just dunk.
You should talk with your friend about systemic racism in the US. An entire group of people repeatedly dispossessed from the value of their labor. The argument your friend is using has racist undertones whether they know it or not.
I didn't want to jump there immediately, but there's definitely nascent fascism in the messaging when you really analyze it. If we are to say that wealth over time is a measurement of merit, what are old money families? People who just have hereditary superiority? Wouldn't racial disparities in income therefore also be racial disparities in merit? And the same for sex, gender conformity, etc. The hierarchy of income lines up with social oppression (because intersectionality represents the facets of class oppression), so they are basically claiming that the cishet white dudes have some sort of underlying superiority to everyone else (along with Jewish and East Asian people, so you can see why The Bell Curve is so popular among fascists).