I don’t see any problem here. Racism existed before capitalism to justify slavery and has a new function after the abolition. In fact, before the abolition, it functioned to divide different oppressed groups, as it does today.
If anything, the meme says that racism was a precondition for capitalism. If capitalism needs racism, of cause racism must be older, otherwise capitalism could not have developed.
I’m not calling the meme a problem. There are people that legitimately hold the position of “racism existed before capitalism, so they have no interplay”. Those are the people I’m preempting.
I don’t see any problem here. Racism existed before capitalism to justify slavery and has a new function after the abolition. In fact, before the abolition, it functioned to divide different oppressed groups, as it does today.
If anything, the meme says that racism was a precondition for capitalism. If capitalism needs racism, of cause racism must be older, otherwise capitalism could not have developed.
I’m not calling the meme a problem. There are people that legitimately hold the position of “racism existed before capitalism, so they have no interplay”. Those are the people I’m preempting.
Ok, this implication wasn’t obvious for me and it truly is a stupid take