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A review by youngthespian42
The Viral Underclass: How Racism, Ableism and Capitalism Plague Humans on the Margins by Steven W. Thrasher
2.0
This book exposed me to a lot of ugly history about the underclass and minority treatments in health system and policy in America history. It frequently ties past policy to current conditions in ways that feel like stretches at time, hyperbolic, and sometimes outright offensive.
The author constantly inserts themselves into the narrative and makes the plight of so many about their personal identity.
While this books makes several statements about classism being the lynchpin of unequal treatment and outcomes in America, there is a constant need to highlight intersectional lens to these outcomes. In book constantly calling out America’s black and brown people as disposable to capitalism, the author truly discards the many poor white people victim to the system.
Understanding systemic racism is important and certain communities disproportionate suffering to these systems is important but none of this is going to change without a broad coalition of working people. You cannot get there by othering working class white the same way the system others minorities. We need to unite against the plutocrats and tear the system down together.
The author constantly inserts themselves into the narrative and makes the plight of so many about their personal identity.
While this books makes several statements about classism being the lynchpin of unequal treatment and outcomes in America, there is a constant need to highlight intersectional lens to these outcomes. In book constantly calling out America’s black and brown people as disposable to capitalism, the author truly discards the many poor white people victim to the system.
Understanding systemic racism is important and certain communities disproportionate suffering to these systems is important but none of this is going to change without a broad coalition of working people. You cannot get there by othering working class white the same way the system others minorities. We need to unite against the plutocrats and tear the system down together.