They’re using the tactic Trump used so often of taking a starting position way beyond what they actually want to achieve -to shift the overton window- and then ‘compromising’ somewhere in the middle, which is the thing they were really trying to achieve in the first place.
They know if they push for (actually universal) UBI the response from their opponents will be ‘fuck UBI’.
If they instead push for minorities-only BI, the respose from many of their opponents instead becomes ‘wtf, why don’t white people get it??’ and actual UBI (the thing they really want) is elevated to being the ‘compromise’ position.
They’re using the tactic Trump used so often of taking a starting position way beyond what they actually want to achieve -to shift the overton window- and then ‘compromising’ somewhere in the middle, which is the thing they were really trying to achieve in the first place.
They know if they push for (actually universal) UBI the response from their opponents will be ‘fuck UBI’.
If they instead push for minorities-only BI, the respose from many of their opponents instead becomes ‘wtf, why don’t white people get it??’ and actual UBI (the thing they really want) is elevated to being the ‘compromise’ position.