He says DEI should be understood as a direct response to Occupy Wall Street, because racial division broke apart a movement that could have united the '99 percent' against class power.
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Occupy Wall Street
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He argues that DEI politics were pushed by elite institutions in order to redirect or fracture the class solidarity signaled by Occupy Wall Street.
He argues that wokeism and DEI were promoted after Occupy Wall Street to divide a broad anti-banking movement by race, gender, and historical grievance instead of wealth redistribution.
Jiang says Occupy Wall Street exposed elite corruption after 2008 and that identity politics was advanced to dissolve class-based revolt and liberal opposition.
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"king jr throughout the 1960s his main argument is we should not judge anyone by the color of his skin um we should be..."
"occupy wall street occupy occupy wall street people forget this but occupy occupy wall street had had the potential to become a real revolution..."
"...uh, in the United States primarily as responsible to, uh, occupy wall street."
"...absolutely right in that. Wokeism was a direct response to Occupy Wall Street. Because remember, in 2008, people were pissed because they found out..."
"So their strategy then was to promote DEI. To sow dissent and discord and say, like, no, what matters is that class. Okay. That..."
"Right? And they still got their huge bonuses at the end of the year. So and now what they realize is that, well, no,..."
"...Because remember. Why do we have identity politics? Because of Occupy Wall Street. Yeah. Right? Because 2008, the entire global elite showed how corrupt,..."
"...and then uh you know as got as the the occupy wall street as that esg blackrock got pushed down as the fake left..."
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