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[–] 13 points 4 months ago (1 child)

I don't see any problem here. Racism existed before capitalism to justify slavery and has a new function after the abolition. In fact, before the abolition, it functioned to divide different oppressed groups, as it does today.

If anything, the meme says that racism was a precondition for capitalism. If capitalism needs racism, of cause racism must be older, otherwise capitalism could not have developed.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not calling the meme a problem. There are people that legitimately hold the position of "racism existed before capitalism, so they have no interplay". Those are the people I'm preempting.

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