Scrolling through, & whenever ppl try to separate race + class, it’s bc they’re content w/the subjugation of poor non-white ppl. There’s no other reason you’d use class to undermine race (reductionism), or race to undermine classed struggles felt across race (shallow anti-racism)

Racialized subjugation in US is heavily rooted in class— whether it be racism uniting white ppl content in their poverty bc they feel racial unity w/ other whites across class; or racism justifying non-white subjugation to state violence in protection of capital + property

I was annoyed with Twitter all day, since I saw people yet again employing “white working class” narratives and “white economic anxiety” arguments— and this always irks me.

And I know scrolling doesn’t help— but I believe not being nuanced about this is intentional

Both class reductionists and shallow anti-racist view white people as full humans and don’t extend the same nuance to us. For us, they make the choices out to be (1) tolerate the racism (reductionists) because at least more of you will be lift out of poverty, or

(2) only care about the racism (shallow anti-racists) as though ridding ourselves of racism/using better language around race addresses the poverty and inequality we experience, and the continued state violence that accompanies that condition.

& honestly, I’m starting to view both 1 and 2 as one in the same— since neither of those frameworks (and the people who employ them) help us reach closer to liberation, and they definitely don’t help to build solidarity
(the anti-racism one is heavily individualised and rooted

(in anti-Blackness it seems, since it tells other non-white groups that they can’t participate — and yes, I do note this in the KH “Black and Indian” discourse— which is played)

* I’m saying it’s rooted in anti-Blackness, even though I’m seeing it pushed by Black ppl — bc individualism ignores the collective, and as Black ppl, when we move as a collective— that has always been to our collective betterment: Thus, solidarity should be in our best interests

and this 100% and most definitely and especially means solidarity with other non-white people (which is why the Black/Indian discourse is especially annoying)

Every time you mention class reductionists, they hop in your mentions + DMs demanding an answer about why “race-neutral” analysis is wrong, because to them economic justice (via universalism) solves all problems; I don’t engage w/ these deluded ppl bc justice can’t exist w/racism

I know that because whiteness is central to their analysis, they don’t care about racism and the ramifications of racism in a universal system— but keep that nonsense to your uninformed self, and stop trying to demand people to consent to their continued subjugation