Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Clinton and establishment Democrats slight of hand

Slight of word, actually. For you language and framing buffs, see this article. An excerpt:

"The presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton has been a master class in how to divorce economic issues from issues of race and gender by pushing the language of 'intersectionality,' w
hich enables the political class to head off threats to their power and protect the status quo."

"Her supporters have been led to believe this is a reasonable perspective to hold, and so, as Roqayah Chamseddine has argued, the answer to Sanders’ 'economic populism' has been relatively easy—'divert attention to other issues' and mislead the 'public in terms of how anti-capitalism converges with race, gender, and class.'”

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