Will Shetterly
1 min readDec 7, 2021

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Unsupported opinions are not facts. They're just beliefs.

1. The richest groups in the US today came here with more wealth than other groups. That falls under "it takes money to make money."

2. If the poor in America are rich, the rich in America should not mind sharing the wealth because then everyone would be even richer than the poor in America today.

3. Cheap labor was brought in by rich people to increase their profit. The rules for immigration are much stricter now, so instead we get rich and highly educated immigrants. That, for example, is why the richest "white" group in the US is Australian American.

4. Street crimes are committed by desperate people who have few other options. Basic Income would eliminate those crimes. It would do nothing about white collar crimes, of course.

5. Critical Race Theory was developed in the Ivy League in the 1980s by neoliberals like Derrick Bell and Kimberle Crenshaw who had nothing to do with socialism. Socialism is about uniting people on the basis of class, not about dividing them on the basis of race or gender.

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Will Shetterly
Will Shetterly

Written by Will Shetterly

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