[Peace-discuss] Decry discrimination: accept exploitation

[C G Estabrook]

 <https://www.facebook.com/cgestabrook#>
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/dec/21/mark-lilla-identity-politics-liberals

"Macomb County, Michigan, Lilla’s birthplace just outside Detroit, was one of the rust belt counties that voted twice for Obama before going for Trump – a fact which complicates the progressive ‘whitelash' thesis that Trump voters were motivated by racial resentment."

The desperate attempt to blame this fact on racism and/or misogyny shows that identity politics is a cover for liberals' abandonment of class politics. 

Its real source is the immiseration of the American middle class and the confiscation of their life chances, in comparison with their parents, over 40 years of accelerating growth of inequality. 

Liberals decry discrimination in order not to have to talk about exploitation. 

—CGE

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