• Mustakrakish@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    First of all, the fuck you think I didn’t have more than one reason?

    Second, the southern strategy is about otherizing minorities to keep the working class fighting amongst ourselves, not about “single issue voting” as you seem to imply.

    Third, a line in the sand is not the same thing as single issue voting. And (talking about the Gaza Genocide as you’re implying) genocide is a pretty hard fucking line in the sand. Your privledge is showing

    • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Your lack of situational understanding is showing.

      Edit: and the southern strategy used race as a single issue vote strategy during the Nixon Goldwater era, the core of it is single issue voting. Get people to vote, or not vote, for a singular issue and everything else is on the table. Hence the chorus of “I didn’t vote for this.”