I'm damn tired of people who claim to be the left

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138. News flash

The economic structure of the US is built on discrimination of women, immigrants and people of color.

The generational wealth of the overwhelmingly white, straight male population in the top 1% was created on education, capital, housing, and jobs reserved exclusively for them.

Is that clearer?

Good.

Now you understand that there will be no change in economic concentration among the current 1% until women, immigrants and people of color have recovered from CENTURIES of being locked out of equal opportunity. That will take people acknowledging that yes, white people don't have all the money because they simply worked harder, because that is exactly what saying race and gender is not endemic to the economic situation of Americans who are not making it.

It will also require acting, legislatively and culturally on those issues such as LGBT discrimination in housing and the workplace, the pay gap for women, the school to prison pipeline for young black men, targeted policing of people of color, targeted legislation to put obstacles in the way of women's reproductive choices, cutting of resources for public schools with high populations of disabled, impoverished or special needs kids.

To do that, we need to SHUT DOWN the talk about how those things need to wait until AFTER white middle class straight men are making the income they think that they deserve, and then will magically become supportive of opening up opportunites for those jobs, because in those halcyon days of labor, women and people of color were locked out of those jobs to keep them open for white men.

Trickle down social justice won't materialize any more than trickle down economics did.