Asklemmy

Are you talking to me? I said that racism was traditionally used as a tool to divide working class movements so anti racism and class war go hand in hand. Trying to have one without the other is a classic way to divide working people against each other. Pretty weird how you read what I wrote and assumed I’m a racist.

I think the point was that racism has historically been used to distract from class warfare. If the ruling class doesn’t want the plebs to rise up, they keep the plebs distracted with something else like racism. Like if someone is arguing that class warfare is the true issue, they should be vehemently anti-racist as a result. But instead, this person was arguing that racism doesn’t exist, which runs counter to what someone educated about class warfare would believe. Because someone arguing about class warfare would believe that racism is manufactured by the elite. But the fact that it’s manufactured means it exists, even if it only exists due to artificial efforts to stoke it.