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Unfortunately most of my time is now spent among petit bourgois and damn do they have brainworms.
It helped me to see their "ideas" as just expressions of their class position. Until they are ready to interrogate that, dialog can only go so far.
Absolutely, I have to keep this in mind every time these people say something about "foreigners" (ie. coloured people; to get more specific, [insert slur here]), taxes, or people who get welfare benefits. It's not to say they get a pass on being assholes, but I understand where it comes from.
What really bothers me is the constant use of slurs as if it's the normal way to talk about people. Contrast that to "normal people," ie. whites who are ostensibly citizens.
Sometimes I wonder how I, a white immigrant, am spoken about when I am not present. But then again I don't think I want to know.
Man I'm lucky I'm not around people like that anymore. The slurs are really the icing on the fecal layer cake. Not that it helps, but I think their racism is just a derivative of their worldview.
Again it seems that first pillar is doing all the work here. But attacking that means attacking their class position, which many are not surprisingly reluctant to do.
petit bourgeoisie when you tell them to condemn the shop owner who shot a teenager over bottle of water