• tacosplease@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    It lost me when it said white liberals just want moral wins over conservatives and don’t care about minorities.

    • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      By and large, they do. As an establishement, the Democrats only have a passing interest in entertaining the idea of passing legislation that would increase racial equity in any meaningful manor in the US. It’s the same story in plenty of other countries too.

      It’s worth pointing out that “liberal” in the context of political discourse of this kind isn’t the broader, more common definition of “progressive, vaguely left leaning” but liberalism or more accuratelyneoliberalism