Re:Powerful Photos of Life in the Old Glasgow Tenement Block...
by forkandwait on Thursday December 27, 2018 @05:23PM
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My (poorly articulated) point is that all the non-class markers we use to oppress people - whether skin color, religion, accent, clothing style, music preferences, etc - just disguise class oppression. In the USA, I think we emphasize color in order to avoid the hard truth that society was created so that a few could fuck the many.
And I meant "white" literally, to point out the absurdity that poverty is a function of skin color as opposed to deep class organization. If light skin color is what made one rich and powerful, then Catholic Irish would be at the top. But...
Re:Powerful Photos of Life in the Old Glasgow Tenement Block...
by Gibbon1 on Friday December 28, 2018 @03:03AM
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I agree with that, recently read a rant about how liberals have fallen into the trap of seeing oppression as caused by discrimination based on skin color, instead of of oppression as a power class thing. And think if only some of the feet in the boot were brown that'll be fair.
Does it help a man of color if the foot in the boot is sometimes brown? I think not a boot is a boot.
Sectarianism was a pretty dreadful problem in Glasgow (and to a lesser extent the other cities in the Central belt of Scotland) - it still exists although not nearly as bad as it used to be:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectarianism_in_Glasgow