Wait, so this is about these 'land acknowledgment' things? I mean its cringy, especially saying what land your people are traditionally from on a phone call, but really the worst that article has to say about it sounds pretty benign, other then the cringe. I thought this was going to be some disagreement with the Oglala Sioux and the Cheyenne River Sioux finally buying the land around the battle of Wounded Knee.
Wait, so this is about these 'land acknowledgment' things? I mean its cringy, especially saying what land your people are traditionally from on a phone call, but really the worst that article has to say about it sounds pretty benign, other then the cringe. I thought this was going to be some disagreement with the Oglala Sioux and the Cheyenne River Sioux finally buying the land around the battle of Wounded Knee.
You do realize what this is right? It's a form of I will say X to avoid implementing Y. I will say I support you, but when it comes to the complex relationship forming, and not eating the movement alive with infighting, and doing power moves in congress. They would instead rather do pointless social issue virtue signaling. In my opinion, the greatest con of the American elites was accepting people into the elite that were not white.
Instead of saying expanding Ivy League admissions to more people which would raise all boats in a rising tide they instead accept some African Americans at the cost of poor whites, and poor Asians and keep legacy old money coming back to the college. Trust fund brats who have done nothing to deserve their money other than pure luck get to luck in.
Instead of enacting widespread or even middle-class enabling welfare programs like medicare for all they mean to test it to divide and conqueror the lower class vs the middle class.
Instead of expanding the number of doctors in residency for medicare, they keep healthcare expensive so that if you are middle-class or even upper-middle-class cancer will force you into bankruptcy.
I have seen the tactics of Neoliberals and their academic allies. They will do stupid shit like count houses as assets, and say hey 8% of Americans are millionaires says the neoliberal when in reality if you subtract houses from assets, only 1 percent have assets over one million not counting their houses.
All the wealthy and elites do is divide, obstruct, and obfuscate.
A real progressive who is serious about destroying the elite would target the business leaders, and DC creatures by forcing everyone else against them. However, I understand why most people think this is risky. For one we are in the imperial core, Americans even homeless ones aren't the worst off, tell that to kids in Ukraine, Yemen, Syria, Afganistan, etc.
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