Glenn - "It seems to me, if you wanted to actually get it done, whatever the “it” is ... you need political majorities. And the mustering of those political majorities requires formulating your claims in terms that are universally applicable to the people whom you're trying to persuade."
This thread is an excellent illustration of a point I came here to make in regard to this statement from Glenn, which I think gets to the root of his philosophy of overcoming inequality. Everybody who thinks they are poor thinks they are deserving, maybe not necessarily of a handout but at the very least of getting to keep what they have. Everybody who claims redistribution, whether racially or non-racially based, is necessary always thinks the redistributed share should come from somebody else.
The Woke project quite specifically avoids universally applicable claims to redistribution of some wealth and quite openly claims, just like you did, that specific wealth should be confiscated because the point of the project is *not to equitably redistribute wealth*. The point is to give one set of white people a way to gain power over another set of white people (since white people are still a de facto political majority in this country) by claiming their opposition to wealth redistribution is based on 'racism'.
Glenn - "It seems to me, if you wanted to actually get it done, whatever the “it” is ... you need political majorities. And the mustering of those political majorities requires formulating your claims in terms that are universally applicable to the people whom you're trying to persuade."
This thread is an excellent illustration of a point I came here to make in regard to this statement from Glenn, which I think gets to the root of his philosophy of overcoming inequality. Everybody who thinks they are poor thinks they are deserving, maybe not necessarily of a handout but at the very least of getting to keep what they have. Everybody who claims redistribution, whether racially or non-racially based, is necessary always thinks the redistributed share should come from somebody else.
The Woke project quite specifically avoids universally applicable claims to redistribution of some wealth and quite openly claims, just like you did, that specific wealth should be confiscated because the point of the project is *not to equitably redistribute wealth*. The point is to give one set of white people a way to gain power over another set of white people (since white people are still a de facto political majority in this country) by claiming their opposition to wealth redistribution is based on 'racism'.