[Peace-discuss] Clinton's nefarious use of identity politics against Sanders' class politics

[David Green]

I've been listening to the Unauthorized Disclosure podcast for the past few months. It's fun and really informative, especially the general discussion segments between Rania and Kevin.  

    On Wednesday, March 2, 2016 5:45 PM, C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
 
 

 https://shadowproof.com/2016/02/28/clinton-intersectionality-language-interview/
The presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton has been a master class in how to divorce economic issues from issues of race and gender by pushing the language of “intersectionality,” which enables the political class to head off threats to their power and protect the status quo. The results in the South Carolina Democratic primary are a clear example of this reality.

Clinton has suggested, “If we broke up the big banks tomorrow…would that end racism? Would that end sexism?” Her supporters have been led to believe this is a reasonable perspective to hold, and so ... the answer to Sanders’ “economic populism” has been relatively easy—”divert attention to other issues” and mislead the “public in terms of how anti-capitalism converges with race, gender, and class.”
…[Chibber] "What’s happening here, what’s happening in England with Jeremy Corbyn, it’s a fantastically important development, and I think that this is why the Democratic establishment is rattled right now. Because, despite two years of this drumbeat of inevitability around Hillary and that death mask smile that she has—In spite of that, here comes Bernie, a fringe guy, and within four months of his campaign starting, with all the media being lined up against him, all the progressives, all the feminists, all the race people coming up and pointing their fingers at him and talking about how he represents a return to the gulag, in spite of all that, he’s trouncing every other candidate. Not just Hillary, he’s trouncing everyone. And this speaks to an incredible subterranean development in this culture, which none of us were aware of. Which is that kids are a lot more savvier, both black and white, than we have given them credit for.”
—CGE
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