Opinion | Noah Berlatsky: Democrats' For the People Act crisis proves liberals need show how equality helps everyone. - NBCNewsTHINK
Democrats push for voting rights for Black people in part because they know that Democratic electoral fortunes depend on defending Black voters. When Black voters are discriminated against, all Democratic voters are harmed.Democrats, it seems, are fighting for Black people’s rights not out of guilt, but out of a recognition of shared interests.
When you tell people that they are privileged and that they need to sacrifice what they have for the sake of the less fortunate, Dabiri argues, there are two possible outcomes — both bad. The first is that the privileged people refuse to help, and the second is that they see themselves as martyrs, ennobled by their sacrifice — and therefore better than those they aid.
Instead of appealing to guilt, Dabiri says, activists need to search for common ground between those that need help the most and those who don’t inherently see themselves as disaffected.
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