*AA GROUP* Ever notice how, in the discussions re: the "1%" vs. the "99%" [View all]

[YoungDemCA]

There's remarkably little talk about how working class white men have historically (and currently) benefited from higher wages than women workers as well as workers of color, having higher-paying occupations with more benefits open to them, and being catered to in terms of housing and other aspects of public policy (and politics in general)...in short, how the vast majority of working class people are invisible in their status as workers, whose work is degraded and devalued, and who are constantly shouted down by a comparatively privileged minority?

I missed the memo that revolutions were supposed to be led by people who are resentful that "distractions" like "identity politics" (oh noez, the issues of the womenz and black and brown folk are being considered too! What a bunch of CORPORATE DEMOCRATIC WHORES) are robbing them of air time for their conspiratorial rants against "Wall Street" or "the Clintons" or the "1 percent". I missed the part where women, Black, Latino, Asian, and other marginalized voices were considered "too divisive" because they weren't focused on some generic "economic inequality" that didn't even consider the unique oppression (which definitely includes, but is by no means limited to economic issues) that women, PoC, LGBT persons, those suffering from physical and/or mental disabilities, and others experience in this society. I guess when I wasn't looking, what is "progressive" or"left-wing" had been redefined to give preferential treatment to middle-class white men.

We're truly living in Bizarro World these days.