I guess I want to agree with you that it's kind of a stalking horse and that there's no real segment of the left that is in fact

Class reductionist however as much as I have personally spent a lot of time

Are youing against people who accused the left of being class reductionist and have written extensively

In defense of the left as non-class reductionist

I do think that there is a cohort of the left

I think a minority of the left that does kind of bristle at the

Centering or I would say the need to

acknowledge

Contemporary ethnic silos as part of their coalition building efforts and who will say look at the overwhelming majority of blackwooders voting for Joe Biden

His victory in South Carolina as mediated by Jim Clyburn with a

frustration that doesn't then yield some kind of desire to understand what's going on there culturally

It yields a kind of defeatism almost where black voters are sometimes written off

discursively and there's no interrogation of

how those outcomes could be changed and

It's sometimes even a dismissive

Attitude to ward those voters as kind of patently

Uninformed or stupid as opposed to having priorities that are different and that

If you want a coalition building you're going to have to figure out how to potentially change your re-orients and so the fact sometimes of

Black voters being one of the few kind of political coalitions that exists in a real way that

sees itself as a voting coalition sees itself as a voting block and

Is a more fixed voting block than other racial groups at a time when there is of course low union density and all of the barriers to having the same kind of

Labor persuasion on the political process that we used to have in some historical periods so it makes me a little reluctant sometimes to say

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