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Ms. Rachel to Match Macklemore’s $1 Million Donation to Support Palestine: ‘I Invite Every Wealthy White Celebrity’ to Do the Same (variety.com)
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[–] 24 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Because privilege is power and power is responsibility.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 weeks ago* (3 children)

    By the time someone has enough millions to toss them around to various causes, their race is a rounding error in their level of privilege. All this does is try to reframe a class vs class struggle as a race vs race struggle.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    It's so funny that you guys are getting up voted when I said almost the exact same thing and hammered for it. Love the consistency. I have the exact view you do. Adding white to this feels performative rather than actually wanting too solve the problem. It's "woke 1.0" vibes.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child)

    Yours came across as a pithy comment coming from a “woke bad” reactionary frame commonly associated with right wing influencers. Mine was rhetorically better for Lemmy, and included a clear “no war but class war” dog whistle that appeals to a large crowd here.

    We agree on the substance on this issue, but your rhetoric doesn’t match your audience.

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