U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 50 Years

Re:U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 5... by edmundsauto on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @02:54PM (#25933061)

There is a resistance from any movement, when they have the national attention, and another movement speaks up. It seems there is a perception that the public can only care about one thing at a time.

My guess is that any attempt to reframe away from race, towards social class, would be strongly opposed by key interests. That makes it very difficult to get into the conversation, and creates infighting between marginalized groups.

So maybe it turns out this sociology/governance stuff is more complicated than my engineers bias wants to admit. How do you make a decision when the complexity makes prediction useless?

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Re:U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 5... by AWildC182 on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @05:39PM (#25935126)

That's a good point. I suspect maybe we're overthinking things a bit. Most movements that enter the spotlight have spent a good amount of time growing behind the scenes beforehand. We can push for class reform without framing it as reframing race issues and wait for its time in the spotlight later.

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