This chapter explores the intertwined nature of racism, sexism, and economic exploitation, arguing that discrimination has historical roots that serve elite interests. It critiques superficial anti-racist efforts that fail to address fundamental economic issues, highlighting how poverty sustains racial divisions. By examining the dynamics of social justice discourse, the chapter emphasizes the need for a deeper understanding of inequality to foster genuine change.
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When ideas and movements that threaten to overturn established hierarchies of power are absorbed into elite institutions like Ivy League universities and for-profit corporations, they get transformed into ideas that support the status quo, while remaining cloaked in the language and symbols of radicalism and egalitarianism.
The replacement of the word “equality” by the word “equity” in the worlds of academia, NGOs, activism, and corporate HR departments, is an example of the attempts by elite people and institutions to transform historical movements for racial and gender equality, into ideas that promote the interest of elites – in particular, economic inequality and the division of the working classes.
In this episode we explore how forms of oppression based on cultural factors like skin colour or gender or religion, etc, can only be understood and effectively combatted by understanding them in the context of economic exploitation and economic competition which is what the human propensity to discriminate evolved for in the first place.
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