@cyborganism@GammaGames There's a particular category of "leftist" who, to put it gently, have a greatly simplified view of the world in which "the only war is class war." They regard social issues such as anti-racism, feminism, queer liberation as distractions from the "true" cause of bringing about a new economic system - unimportant at best, active interference invented by the ruling class at worst.
I'd argue that they aren't entirely wrong, just coming to the entirely wrong conclusion.
It absolutely benefits the 1% to have people fighting about stuff that keeps them out if the crosshairs, but the solution isn't to be an asshole and stamp out any attempts at progress in culture and acceptance. The solution is to accept people and progress cultural stuff faster to unite people better.
If you're going to be militant about the class war, don't you want as many allies as possible? Within reason of course, don't want bigoted assholes.
That's the thing. Dessalines and Nutomic are the bigoted assholes the rest of us should be telling to fuck right off because they're getting in the way of our class awakening. They think they're adovocating for true liberation when their way of going about it slows things down. They are tools of capital holders when they pull shit like this
Which is so fucking dumb because they're actively resisting the class awakening that we all need to have. That these divisions and culture wars we have are a distraction from the true communal love we could all experience and push to topple the hierarchical system. These fucking regressive morons are standing in the way of their own revolution
I think all bigotry can be used as a wedge to divide working people from their own interests. I wouldn't be surprised if Romani bigotry was used to control Europeans in the past. However, I think immigration is the most important wedge in the European context