Argumentative Penguin
1 min readAug 10, 2022

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I have written about poverty and racism a few times, you might've missed them. So here they are....

https://medium.com/p/397dcb896d5b

https://medium.com/p/9c9699e9866b

https://medium.com/p/cd1aabb5eb38

The author's points are indeed valid. But my rebuttal is that prioritising racial arguments about privilege over poverty, though legitimate, is a counter productive methodology for reducing racism. It forces low earning white voters to the political right. In short, prioritising race at every turn increases the pull of racism to those already financially disadvantaged and increases racism. Middle class BIPOC writers are doing more harm than good and supportive woke liberals are encouraging them with faux-woke activism.

In fact, if you're up for a fourth, I even wrote an article with 10 solutions to racism other than being woke.

https://medium.com/p/f5bb6d4f228a

So yeah.... go read my stuff then come back and debate me if you want. Unless, of course, you want to exist in a lovely little bubble where nobody disagrees with anything and no discussion is permitted. There's a name for that sort of society.... Tota.. total... it's something beginning with T.

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Argumentative Penguin
Argumentative Penguin

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