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I love it when people make up awful hypotheticals to try and prove a point. "Wot if the only way to do the revolution was to disembowel yourself in public, would u do it?", like damn dude im doing a great hecking think right now.
Fucking deal in real actual situations instead of deliberately awful hypotheticals, also dont fucking keep pushing this reactionary concept of workers as wife beating, gay lynching, racist coal miners and sweaty construction workers who just drink beer and watch reality tv. I seriously see this shit all the fucking time and its obscene how far from reality it is, I've literally seen an org have a local split over how anti-refugee and islamophobic they should be in order to appeal to workers.
Workers
Are
Disproportionately
Brown women
Wadb :very-smart:
This reminds me off "What if I have to yell the N-word to distract an active shooter???"
I also hate the use of coal miners and steel workers because they are an incredibly tiny subset of the working class, only chosen to appeal to the middle class middle management types hate fantasy of the working class. There’s like 35k coal miners and 70k steel workers in the US total. Like why wouldn’t they have chosen a (marginally) more realistic example involving fast food workers, warehouse workers, or general retail workers?
All 3 are too obviously diverse and young to be maliciously stereotyped like this, except maybe warehouse workers.
You interact with fast food workers and retail every day basically, you're rarely incidentally meeting a coal/steel worker.
it's the opposite of what u/4zi said
the stereotype was concocted by the right, to appeal to the white. The liberal use of the stereotype is a reaction. (they are being unwitting dupes)
It's exactly the same as "we've lost 5,000 American soldiers!" when there are like 2,000,000 Iraqis dead
American soldiers aren't the real victims, and "muh iron workers" aren't the real working class