• rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Please, explain why Angela Davis is wrong. I dare you.

    Edit: do any of the people downvoting me even know who she is or seen her work?

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      Evidence of basic capitalism has existed in areas that only had a single race or where the race of owners/customers were the same.

      Can you explain why the economic framework of capitalism NEEDS racism to work?

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      Capitalism is a fairly recent invention. Racism is as old as humanity and in no way depends on capitalism to exist

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        That’s not true, on either account. Race was first documented in 1619. Capitalism became a mode of production at approximately the same time.

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          Oh so racism was invented by Europeans in 1619? Interesting. This is not just deluded but very Eurocentric as well.

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      Because racism doesn’t coincide with an economic or government ideology. If that were the case, then AOC, Kamala Harris, or Ihlan Omar (and more) wouldn’t hold office. The idea that Angela Davis expressed is now outdated

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        It’s not outdated, because racism still exists. It’s changed, and can’t be analyzed through a singular intersection.

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          Change means the prior is outdated,

          It’s changed, and can’t be analyzed through a singular intersection.

          You are correct

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            Do you know anything about her work? Her analysis is still accurate. Most intersectional class based analyses will be true regardless of function. Women of color in politics doesn’t disprove wealth based systemic inequality.

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              I didn’t give those examples because they are women. That’s a completely different topic. And poverty doesn’t care what color your skin is. That is my point.

              And Angela Davis is a far-left activist that has worked with the USA communist party and The Black Panthers. She was a philosophy professor and she is very well educated. Also, somehow firearms that she purchased fell into the arms of a 17 year old so he could take hostages at his brother’s trial. Ultimately the judge, the brothers, and another defendent were killed during a shootout with police.

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      You can’t have capitalism without a class of wage slaves. It’s arbitrary that America uses race to differentiate. It could’ve been brown haired people, or women, instead.

      I haven’t read her work, so I can’t comment on the second part. I’m curious if you know what her response to the above would be?