Short reply to the Kos diary about how politics which fight for legal rights has nothing to do with the politics that fight for economic rights and/or that the two issues are separate and the way forward for the Democratic Party is to prioritize legal rights (like abortion rights) and de-prioritize economic rights because economic rights is just white man politics.
So feminists, don’t worry your cute little heads with the economic right to be able to actualize your legal rights to women’s health care. Just fight real hard for the legal right to vote, enter a white man bar, work alongside white men, and always — always — accept mainstream economic beliefs, including the belief that economics is a science and thus politics and ethics have very little to say about it, as long as the economist is a white male Democrat. If it’s a black guy — like Sandi Darity or a white female like Stephanie Kelton — then continue to ignore them because they disagree with mainstream white man economics.
And, if the white man economist supports Trump, then you might be allowed to disagree. It depends. Kos will figure that out once Democratic white man economists do the proper and scientifically valid maths.
But most importantly always remember: Federal Funding for PP does not cure sexism like Sanders, the idiot, thinks.
And if you see MLK in heaven, please pass this message along as he was confused by white man obsession over the issue of the economics that might allow blacks to buy a cup of coffee once they gained the legal right to sit at a lunch counter.
No way!
The legal right to sit at the lunch counter is what is most important and is what true identity politics is all about — in the most positive sense of the phrase.
The economic right to buy a cup of coffee CAN NOT CURE RACISM !!!!!!!
Just as the legal right to women’s health care is the most important and is what feminism is all about.
The economic right to actualize your legal right to women’s health care CAN NOT CURE SEXISM !!!!!!
So, please continue to fight for legal rights.
Do NOT fight for the economic ability to actualize your legal rights because this can NOT cure other social justice issues. Because social justice issues are separate from economics issues!
Or, to paraphrase Maggie Thatcher: When it comes to economics, there is no society. There’s only correct maths ! Society must simply accept the assumptions of human nature, theory of knowledge, theory of money and banking, etc… of mainstream white man economics.
Society, and thus politics, has little it can say about mainstream white man economics — as long as I like the white man economist, of course.
MLK knew that the economic fight would be the hardest, and expressed his belief that his life would be under great threat once he launched his Poor People’s Campaign and advocated Democratic Socialism as providing the way forward for economic justice.
MLK just PROVED that economics justice can not cure racism because look where his socio-economic justice platform got him!
Economics is a science. Don’t fuck with it.
Politics is an art and should not fuck with economics. Especially mainstream white man economics. If you do, then you are just another white man who is just protecting his white man privilege.
Like MLK: