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Related: About this forumWhite Populism (HRC GP)
Introduction:Last week, Bernie Sanders officially lost the Democratic Partys nomination. He lost by every measure the popular vote, the pledged delegates count, and the superdelegate count. Bernie Sanders was soundly and prominently rejected by the core constituencies of the Democratic Party, namely minority groups. While Sanders tied or won whites everywhere, he lost Blacks 7525 overall, and lost Latinos 6535 overall. It is telling that as diverse populations grow, they have increased say over who Democrats choose as President. It is even more telling that there have been many leftists this cycle who have attempted to silence these diverse voices and recenter the Democratic Partys agenda on the white working class.
Bernie Sanders didnt win, but he did reveal that we have much work to do with racism and sexism on the left. In previous cycles, Democrats might have assumed that most racists and misogynists resided on the right side of the political spectrum. Sadly, this simply isnt the case. Sanders candidacy revealed a brocialist movement, which became notorious for attacking women and minorities who even mildly criticized Sanders online. Brocialism can be defined quite simply: self-proclaimed socialists who put class issues over race and gender issues. Brocialists believe that fighting for diversity in government and business is simply a distraction to the class struggle. A brilliant cartoon by @HexPositive illustrates brocialisms central thesis, that identity politics, intersectionality, and diversity should come only after the class struggle can be completed:
Bernie Sanders didnt win, but he did reveal that we have much work to do with racism and sexism on the left. In previous cycles, Democrats might have assumed that most racists and misogynists resided on the right side of the political spectrum. Sadly, this simply isnt the case. Sanders candidacy revealed a brocialist movement, which became notorious for attacking women and minorities who even mildly criticized Sanders online. Brocialism can be defined quite simply: self-proclaimed socialists who put class issues over race and gender issues. Brocialists believe that fighting for diversity in government and business is simply a distraction to the class struggle. A brilliant cartoon by @HexPositive illustrates brocialisms central thesis, that identity politics, intersectionality, and diversity should come only after the class struggle can be completed:
https://medium.com/marcushjohnson/we-should-call-brocialism-what-it-is-white-populism-ad257608ed52#.eq3p0wz7b
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White Populism (HRC GP) (Original Post)
Her Sister
Jun 2016
OP
This is two issues we should not be talking about in 2016, racial issues and women,
Thinkingabout
Jun 2016
#8
tonyt53
(5,737 posts)1. Couldn't have said it better myself.
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)2. More excerpts on White Populism:
Brocialism Puts Class over Race and Gender
Brocialist theory purports that once the class struggle is complete, issues with race and gender will simply melt away. But it is important to remember that socialism is an economic system, nothing more. It is not a cultural system. Racism (and sexism) can still thrive in socialist countries. There are plenty of societies far more socialist than the United States that suffer from problems with race. Here is a passage from the Council on Hemispheric Affairs piece Revolutionary Racism in Cuba noting that communism didnt solve racism in Cuba:
After the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro acknowledged the prevalence of racism and launched a set of reforms intended to eliminate racial disparity in public spaces, education and employment. However, he failed to adequately address its cultural and societal roots. After a few years, he declared his policies a success and made any further discussion of race or racial inequality a counterrevolutionary crime, insisting that talk of race would divide the nation. During Castros reign, the silence on issues of racism made further debate or improvements impossible, countering the initial benefits of his reforms. Even though the Castro government achieved more for blacks in fifty years than previous administrations had in the last 400 years, his policies only addressed issues of unequal access without changing structural biases underlying society. With a new wave of economic changes affecting the country, race and racism are once again becoming important issues in Cuba.
Brocialist theory purports that once the class struggle is complete, issues with race and gender will simply melt away. But it is important to remember that socialism is an economic system, nothing more. It is not a cultural system. Racism (and sexism) can still thrive in socialist countries. There are plenty of societies far more socialist than the United States that suffer from problems with race. Here is a passage from the Council on Hemispheric Affairs piece Revolutionary Racism in Cuba noting that communism didnt solve racism in Cuba:
After the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro acknowledged the prevalence of racism and launched a set of reforms intended to eliminate racial disparity in public spaces, education and employment. However, he failed to adequately address its cultural and societal roots. After a few years, he declared his policies a success and made any further discussion of race or racial inequality a counterrevolutionary crime, insisting that talk of race would divide the nation. During Castros reign, the silence on issues of racism made further debate or improvements impossible, countering the initial benefits of his reforms. Even though the Castro government achieved more for blacks in fifty years than previous administrations had in the last 400 years, his policies only addressed issues of unequal access without changing structural biases underlying society. With a new wave of economic changes affecting the country, race and racism are once again becoming important issues in Cuba.
https://medium.com/marcushjohnson/we-should-call-brocialism-what-it-is-white-populism-ad257608ed52#.eq3p0wz7b
Cha
(305,406 posts)3. Yes.. the ugly truth right out here in the open.. Mahalo Her Sister~
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)5. Seems the only equality they wanted/were interest in was economic equality.
Racial equality, Gender equality, Sexual equality?... not so much!
but somehow, Democrats should be recentering the party not on women or minorities, but on working class white men.
https://medium.com/marcushjohnson/we-should-call-brocialism-what-it-is-white-populism-ad257608ed52#.eq3p0wz7b
Cha
(305,406 posts)6. BS started this shite in 2014.. we were outraged then and even more so now.
Thankfully it didn't go over so well in President Obama's and Hillary's America.
BootinUp
(49,023 posts)4. K & R
BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)7. They need a new word for themselves, because "progressives" does not apply.
"Regressives" seems more appropriate, given their attitudes on gender and race.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)8. This is two issues we should not be talking about in 2016, racial issues and women,
it should be a thing of the past in the Democratic Party, but they are. We have our first black president and probably the first woman will follow him, hopefully we can get past the ability to accept everyone for what and who they are.
ismnotwasm
(42,454 posts)9. I'm really bothered by the rejection of this I've seen.
Race issues, discussions of bigotry and proved get of every kind should be forefront no matter who the nominee is.