• garbagebagel@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Put it this way: you as a working class white person may need one box to see the game, but a working class black person needs two boxes (because they need to overcome poverty and systemic racism, while you only need to overcome poverty)

    Nobody is denying the struggle of the working class, but working class white people (specifically cis men) need to recognize that other working class groups are also struggling the same struggle but dealing with additional issues of racism, misogyny, trans/homophobia, etc. at the same time.

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      You cannot have equity without first enforcing equality. Otherwise equity just becomes spoiled entitled behavior.

      Equality is absolute.