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Voting is changing the Oil to keep the engine running (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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While Education and Organizing is building the parts for a new engine the rest of the year.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

If Democrats had ever done anything to fight fascism instead of just enabling it literally for generations, we wouldn't need to defend abortion.

Edit: also, of course a liberal uses a car analogy. How much more accurate could you get than to relate the democratic party to a thing most Americans are forced to use against their will, that kills their children and destroys their future... With an incredibly racist history and only slightly less racist present.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I am genuinely interested, how were cars brought about through a racist history?

Is it strictly through the creation of interstates that cut through major cities (mostly colored neighborhoods)? Or are there more nefarious reasons?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That’s one big part of it, though there are other examples. The deliberate building of overpasses too low for buses to go under, stopping poor black people from getting to the beach by bus, is another well-known example.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Yup https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/racism-by-design-the-building-of-interstate-81 https://www.kqed.org/news/11943263/americas-highway-system-is-a-monument-to-environmental-racism-and-a-history-of-inequity https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/10/robert-moses-saga-racist-parkway-bridges/

There's a whole two Behind the Bastards episodes on Robert Moses.

And none of this talks about how highways allowed building suburbia, and how that's ultimately just an extension of manifest destiny.