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And plenty of people will continue to vote against their own interests, and the rest of us will be blamed for not compelling them to do literally anything that would actually help themselves out.
One could and should argue that irrational racism is never in anyone’s actual self interest, even if they’ve convinced themselves it feels good.
That seems like saying doing crack is in the crackhead’s self interest because the want to, but we all know the detriments substantially outweigh the momentarily benefit.
And plenty of people will continue to vote against their own interests, and the rest of us will be blamed for not compelling them to do literally anything that would actually help themselves out.
When you take white supremacy into account, many of those people are voting FOR one of their primary self interests.
One could and should argue that irrational racism is never in anyone’s actual self interest, even if they’ve convinced themselves it feels good.
That seems like saying doing crack is in the crackhead’s self interest because the want to, but we all know the detriments substantially outweigh the momentarily benefit.