Excerpt from this Substack post: https://nickrafter.substack.com/p/the-rent-may-always-be-too-damn-high
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I think I understand the bizarre train of thought, something like:
I know rationally that running on material interests can cut through culture war bullshit, but it's funny to see how it gets rationalized when it does.
Don't forget " oh he's Italian, so he is white" was probably a decent amount of their piggish thinking
Cuomo is also white/Italian though.
Cuomo is actually an italian surname
Actually Cuomo ends with an 'o', silly Billy.
Funny thing is, there are at least a couple Middle-Eastern comedians on r/StandupComedy who made jokes about how the audience must be confused when the ‘Italian’ man on the stage starts talking about his Lebanese, Palestinian or Iranian background.
I'm sorry but if I think Italian I immediately think slightly dark skin in my mind...idk not that it matters just what I visualize
What matters is that it's the correct side of Mediterranean
It's insane that it works because these people are so dumb
I'm not going to argue they're not dumb. But I think writing people off as dumb is a dead end. Trying to educate people in mass will never work, and honestly is scary. Re-education should chill everyone's blood.
To me, it's that they don't have time to investigate further. They've adopted the R is good, and these talking points mean R mental model.
And that's a problem that has scalable solutions. Four day work weeks. National holiday for voting. Increased paid time off for vacation and sick leave. Medicare for all.
These all give people their time back. Time to think about things other than how they're feeding their kids this week.