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The myth of black capitalism (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For reasons beyond me, some liberals hold up Tulsa as some wonderful thing and proof that black people should just be more engaged in capitalism, and they ignore how the experiment ended.

The easy answer is that racism destroyed Tulsa, not capitalism. Were it not for racist fucks, that experiment would have worked wonderfully. But that's a tale as old as time, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

If racism just sprang from the ground or from defects in people's souls, that would make sense. Racism is a superstructural tool of capitalism. It's a little more obvious how the two are in union when you look at things like the Transatlantic slave trade, but keeping black people as an underclass serves in capital's interest to this day.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Racism is a superstructural tool of capitalism.

That's ridiculous. So many explicitly racist movements have also been explicitly capitalist. Racism is a tool of tribalism and collectivism. Capitalism is an individualistic system.

[–] TopRamenBinLaden 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

So many explicitly racist movements have also been explicitly capitalist.

Probably forgot an 'anti' in there, judging by the rest of your comment, but your typo is very right.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Probably forgot an ‘anti’ in there

Yep

but your typo is very right.