Interview · moment 22 of 28
Seattle's Amazon Head Tax and Socialist Councilwoman Kshama Sawant
from #204 - Katie Herzog | The Tim Dillon Show · #204
4 min
Guest
Katie tells the story of Seattle's head tax fight, Jeff Bezos threatening to pull Amazon's tower, and the ironic video of socialist councilmember Kshama Sawant being drowned out by construction workers chanting against the very tax meant to help them.
- Working-class unity has fractured into identity-based groups rather than coalitional movements around wages and inequality.
- Bernie Sanders represented the best chance to build cross-race working-class movements, though he was going to lose to Trump anyway.
- Elizabeth Warren split the progressive vote and abandoned her consumer-protection platform for identity-focused rhetoric.
- Tim moved to the suburbs to escape the constant rhetoric about trans women being murdered.
- The Human Rights Campaign reported 25 trans murders in 2019 — calling this an epidemic doesn't match the statistical definition.
- Murder rates for trans people are actually lower than for cisgender women and far lower than for men.
- Most of the trans murder victims in recent years were killed during sex work, domestic violence, or random incidents, not hate crimes.
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