Also pretty sure liberals already look at the one on the left with hate and demand they stop protesting immediately, but the ones on the right they are all "now hold on guys, I may not agree with them, but they have a right to protest!"
Yup. Communism is explicitly singled out and criminalized. It’s just not enforced right now. But lots of people want to enforce it and I imagine it will be albeit with a stupider redefining of communism.
But nazism? Neo confederates? KKK? Proud Boys? They’re just exercising their rights.
"Everyone, don't forget to make 12 gallons of mayonnaise by next week. And Mister Johnson, I swear if you try to make a fool out of this class with your 'wasabi mayo' again so help me I will send you straight to the dean!"
Hold on a minute. Maybe they are right? The "white class" is an infinitely mutable class. Containing only those who are part of the imperial "in group", and excluding all others. For example, the Irish are considered white now but haven't always been. I think some Arab (brown people in white-speak) folks are considered white nowadays too.
So if the "white class" is abolished, so too is the moral superiority complex of the west. Then we can go back to the good ol' days or whatever.
I, for example, would be part of the translucent skin northerners in this Brave New World, instead of white in the current iteration of society.
The problem is that fundamentally misunderstands what a class is. Whiteness is a socially constructed tool used to protect and uphold the bourgeois in the imperial core and economically dominate those considered non-white, but it isn't a class in and of itself because it does not imply anything about economic production and ownership thereof or labour and its surplus.
Elimination of the bourgeois would eliminate whiteness as a social construct because the bourgeois' economic domination would end and the need to delineate white from non-white would also end, so your instincts here are right, they just needed a little nuancing.
Race may be a tool of the bourgoisie, but, now created, can certainly survive the death of capitalism as its own sort of zombie. Defeating capitalism is necessary step in defeating racism, but it's not the only step.
Prejudice and privilege have existed before capitalism, and race is just another vector for the realization of these two things. As long as people recognize race, there will be those that use it to exalt or diminish a people.
I should have been more clear. This is sarcasm (I think you would call it that). Clearly the "white class" rhetoric is idiotic, but it is possible that someone might believe a reactionary view wearing the skin of leftism, which is more or less what I wrote.
It's easy to look at problematic parts of our world ("white" lead genocidal imperialism) and believing that changing one aspect without considering the system that gave rise to our world will solve our problems. Maybe I took an advanced liberal propaganda enhancement pill before writing this lol.
You know, most of what I’ve heard about settlers has been negative, but the “white surprise” bit is just so good that it makes me want to read it anyway.
In a sense, "white class" isn't that crazy. We might better call it a "caste," but it's a socially recognized thing with its own privileges, and in some places and times, legally recognized as well.