TCatInReality, 4 months ago

@indigenous_commentator
Love Amber Ruffin! Thanks for sharing.

And she's exactly right. It's the Whites that need to get educated.

indigenous_commentator, 4 months ago

@TCatInReality agree! If the whites were educated the same way #POC were educated about their ethnicity we would be living in a different society altogether!

TCatInReality, 4 months ago

@indigenous_commentator
But Whites have a powerful incentive not to see the systemic racism.

And the people with money have an existential need to keep the working class divided somehow.

How do we break that cycle?

PapyrusBrigade, 4 months ago

@TCatInReality @indigenous_commentator FWIW, I think the key is for white people to learn that the harms of systemic racism outweigh the benefits. The myth of welfare queens to keep benefits low. Crappy underfunded public schools. Poor labour protections, lack of sick leave, poor maternity benefits, poor healthcare benefits. Lack of unions.

Holding onto white privilege in such a system is like being happy you have stale bread instead of moldy bread. Better than it could be, but not good.

CStamp, 4 months ago

@PapyrusBrigade @TCatInReality @indigenous_commentator The myth of the welfare divas is that the filthy rich want to pit middle class against the poor so that none recognize that they are the ones getting the biggest tax payer money handouts, to get richer, not for need.