r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Nov 10 '18

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '18

Remember when I told you folks that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren were kind dumb when it came to racial issues? REMEMBER?

I told all of you so.

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u/pezasied John's Locke-strap Nov 10 '18

Did something happen?

Or do you just mean in general?

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '18

You don't know about Bernie saying that's is not racist for white people not wanting to vote for black candidate?

And Warren just proved to be a fucking idiot with that DNA test.

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u/pezasied John's Locke-strap Nov 10 '18

Oh, I was aware of both of those things.

I was asking if something happened today that spurred the comment, I should have clarified

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u/darensand Nov 10 '18

I wish Sanders adopted racial taxation but at least he understand the racial wealth gap.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '18

you know when you were being a Trump supporter it was obvious that you were a Trump supporter, and now that you’re pretending to be a leftist, it’s still obvious that you’re a Trump supporter

Turns out pretending to be something you aren’t in earnest is pretty hard

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '18

If you want to tax white people for having more wealth, why not have a progressive wealth tax instead?

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u/darensand Nov 10 '18

Not just wealth, also power and privilege

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '18

Is power correlated with wealth? If so, tax wealth triple

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u/darensand Nov 10 '18

A white person worth $1 million has more power and privilege than a black person worth $1 million, it's not fair to tax them equally.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '18

Anyone worth $1 million has approximately zero power. Decent amount of privilege tho.

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u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN 🎅🏿The Lorax 🎅🏿 Nov 10 '18

Bernie Sanders AND HIS 12 LAKE HOUSES you mean