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Voter disenfranchisement, married women denied the right to own property, discrimination in the workplace, a complete absence of rights for people of color and LGBT, so that white men--a minority of the population--can prosper? You expect people to look at that and not realize he is talking about a time period when most Americans were denied employment, civil rights, voting rights, and full citizenship? We are talking about the majority of Americans, all but a select few who were born white, male and middle class.
That is precisely what many of us who were not born into privilege see when some of you talk about "taking the country back." I see it as a clear cry to take back white bourgeois male privilege, not even privilege for all white men. But it's "a snoozer of a thesis" because we don't matter. What matters is that the white bourgeoisie regain its rightful place atop the capitalist world order, where they happily lived off the exploitation of the many--both in the US and globally.
It is possible to speak about the current system of exploitation without longing for the past. Many have repeatedly pointed out that such talk is alienating and exclusionary to many, yet some persist in repeating those cries. Why?
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