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Racism from Tankie Admin and future Lemmy Developer about how the opinion of certain ethnicities in China doesn't matter
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this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2023
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I mean, man, I'm probably clear, since even my white ancestors were post-Civil War immigrants, but that doesn't, and shouldn't, matter. It's a duty to support equitable redistribution of wealth to eliminate racial disparities as a human being and as a countryman, not as someone with white or white slaver ancestors. This started with bigotry - it must end with unity. All of us have a duty to each other, to raise up those who are kept in unequal condition, to stand with those who are isolated, to refuse cooperation to the ideologically prejudiced.
I tend to take a more individualist view of things. I agree that we have some level of duty to each other, but I don't believe that duty should be enforceable with anything stronger than social pressure. As such, I feel that taxation for collective benefit is fundamentally unjust.
However, unlike right-libertarians, I'm not okay with class stratification. We need to be actively dismantling the power structures that maintain the disparities in our society. I believe that in doing so, we'll find that taxation isn't actually necessary, and that we can have a society which is both voluntary and reasonably equal.