Will Shetterly
Oct 22, 2021

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Racialists gotta racialize.

Class is about what you have, not what you are. You can't be a capitalist without capital, and you can't be working class if you can live in comfort on passive income.

My favorite Du Bois quote:

"Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that is the fact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance, and disease of the majority of their fellow men." ― W. E. B. Du Bois, preface to reprint of The Souls of Black Folk (1969)

May you get to his understanding someday.

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Will Shetterly
Will Shetterly

Written by Will Shetterly

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