@wakame @LunaDragofelis @BravelySemantha

That is literally how #classism works.

We see this everyday with CEOs kicking downwards on managers kicking down on employees kicking down on subcontractors.

Or with filthy-rich people making rich people fight affluent people fighting people with stable income fighting people with unstable income fighting unemployed people fighting homeless people.

It's the capitalist pecking order!

https://mstdn.social/@kkarhan/110916415954257350

Philadelphia, 2016. Outside the Dunkin Donuts across the street from City Hall, very late one of those oppressively muggy nights. Attendees of the Democratic National Convention emerged from the subway station, hungry and tired.

Among a cluster of Hillary delegates-- you can tell from a block away, they're the ones dressed for a fancy cocktail party-- a man wearing a nice gray suit with a shiny pink tie and a convention lanyard sighed in tipsy happiness and said to me, "I don't know how anybody could have seen Obama's speech tonight and not feel inspired!"

Oh boy. Here we go. "Well, he's broken a lot of promises, and a lot of us just don't trust him anymore." I answered carefully.

"How could that be, what has Obama ever done wrong?"

"He supports the TPP, for one thing."

Laughing, he scoffed: "Who wants those jobs, anyway?" 

"I do." I held his eyes calmly. Unsmiling.

With absolutely no sign of awareness of the fact he'd just given a very casual finger to a huge swath of proud American labor, he rationally explained to me that the poor are only poor because they buy too many TVs. I told him slowly, "....That's class prejudice, right there. What you just said."

"Yes." he confirmed cheerfully, without hesitation.

I just stood there for several seconds staring at him with my mouth open. Stunned.

I remember telling him, "Obama dropped more bombs than the Bushes ever dreamed."

And that's when he lost his shit. He sputtered as if I'd slapped him, raised and pointed an accusing finger at me like this just turned into Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, and began screaming at me: "SHAME ON YOU! SHAME ON YOU!"

Bewildered, I tried to ask, "...Why? For what? What did I do?" Seriously, what the actual fuck. 

"SHAME ON YOU! SHAME ON YOU!!"

"Really?" What I would give to know what on earth was going through his head then, but his eyes had gone glassy. Furious, shaking, and red-faced, all he could do was repeat himself, completely unhinged. I shook my head at him, gave up, and turned away to remove myself from the situation. His shouts followed me across the street. 

"SHAME ON YOU! ....AND THAT'S COMING FROM A MAN IN A TIE!!" was his idea of a triumphant parting shot. 

That's the DNC in a nutshell, for me: smug, rotten aristocrats totally convinced that they're not morally bankrupt.

#2016
#SeeYouInPhilly
#Primary
#Primary2016
#DemocraticParty
#DNC
#BlueMAGA
#Classism

@business
Are the poor just not poor enough to make the rich feel extra special? Beg to get your taxes cut yet again and the poor can just go hungry.
#Classism

Detangling the nostalgic, classist, racist, sexist, and ageist threads of claims about less civility in US public...
Or, Sympathy for the Karens and Chads ?

https://ask.metafilter.com/373801/Did-people-wear-pajamas-in-public-back-in-the-1990s#5313654

#USPol
#classism
#trash
#PublicFreakouts
#precarity

A familiar (and ancient) story and an important read on #poverty and #mentalhealth. People think it is a stereotype to say that so many people in prison suffer from serious mental health problems. It is in fact very true. The article only goes briefly into that aspect, but is it an important inclusion.

In a broken Britain, the Tories zero in on shoplifters stealing Calpol and food for their children
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/03/shoplifting-crime-poverty-prisons-tories-law-and-order

#classism #ableism

Hunger for power = Weakness

#oppression #repression #hierarchies #patriarchy #colonisation #classism #hate

The problem is larger even than patriarchy...racism, ethnocentrism, classism come into play when it comes to proper attribution & credit for collections.

Forrest relied on local Naxi people, and most especially upon Zhao Chengzhang, whose invaluability he acknowledges in correspondence with others, but not in the published scientific articles/record. #Botany2023 #Racism #Classism #WomenInSTEM

by #KenyaHunter in #CapitalB:

"According to the study, 63 of the 113 deaths during that span were Black women, who were also two times more likely to die from pregnancy-related illness than white women in the state. A DPH spokesperson told Capital B Atlanta that 85% of the deaths involving Black women were preventable."

https://atlanta.capitalbnews.org/maternal-mortality-report/

#BlackWomen #WomensHealth #health #healthcare #pregnancy #maternity #MaternalMortality #mortality #cardiomyopathy #embolisms #classism #racism

Great lecture https://youtu.be/1f2blKai7HA
#democracy #poverty #classism #racism #wealth

Coming to the full realization that foodies come in various forms.
MY type of foodies are of the "historic cookery" nerd #community type of foodies and people who cook what they grow, #EatLocal #garden #farm #forage #hunt etc and not the "I have money to make people wait on me, therefore I am a superior foodie" type of #foodie
#cooking #classism #FoodForAll #GrowSomeShit

A quotation from Baldwin, James:

«««««
It comes as a great shock around the age of 5, or 6, or 7, to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance, along with everybody else, has not pledged allegiance to you.
»»»»»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/baldwin-james/43922/

#quote #quotes #quotation #allegiance #America #AmericanDream #classism #exclusion #flag #loyalty #meme #racism

Man Utd languishes mid-table in terms of disability access
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2023/06/26/man-utds-poor-performance-disability-access-hides-deeper-issue/

#Disabled
#ManUtd
#OakTreeMobility
#OakTree
#Accessibility
#Accessibility
#WheelchairAccessibility
#AudioDescription
#BlueBadge
#SensoryRoom
#ChronicIllness
#ChronicallyIll
#AccessibleStadiaGuide
#AccessibilityLeague
#EnergyLimitingConditions
#ELC
#PremierLeague
#POTS
#Poverty
#Classism

Oof. The #ICEC report on #racism, #sexism and #classism is absolutely damning. Predictably, the response from the #Telegraph is that it's "politically correct bores" who are ruining the game for 'everyone', ignoring the experiences of all those who contributed to the report. I have literally just discovered #cricket and am absolutely loving #TheAshes. For me there's a sense I've come to the sport at a moment of tremendous positive change. I hope it continues to strive to be more inclusive.

Neuer Beitrag auf musiconn.kontrovers:
@MoritzKelber und Pascal Rudolph über #Klassismus in der #Musikwissenschaft
#classism #academia
http://kontrovers.musiconn.de/2023/06/22/klassismus/

If your idea of advocating for the marginalized is only when they are insanely wealthy, well, you might be the problem.
#poverty #classism

@urusan "Masks Off for #LateStageCapitalism, #Greedflation and #Elysium-style #Dystophia|s where #Classism is pushed further and harder"...

https://youtu.be/itAKlmZZb6w?t=479

"The two vessels were lost at sea four days and 4,000 miles apart. The five men who lost their lives on the #Titan have been getting wall-to-wall coverage in the #media worldwide. Meanwhile, the estimated 700 who died when the #Adriana sank off the coast of Greece, mostly women and children, have been essentially forgotten."

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/6/23/greece_migrant_shipwreck_media_coverage

#TitanicSub #refugees #AsylumSeekers #migrants #MigrantsAtSea #SearchAndRescue #xenophobia #racism #classism

"The two vessels were lost at sea four days and 4,000 miles apart. The five men who lost their lives on the #Titan have been getting wall-to-wall coverage in the #media worldwide. Meanwhile, the estimated 700 who died when the #Adriana sank off the coast of Greece, mostly women and children, have been essentially forgotten.."

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/6/23/greece_migrant_shipwreck_media_coverage

#refugees #AsylumSeekers #migrants #MigrantsAtSea #SearchAndRescue #xenophobia #racism #classism

You can bet if there weren't any billionaires on board, the search for that missing sub wouldn't be "massive".

#classism
#HowTheWorldWorks

🎬 this morning, reminding countries at #BonnClimateConference no climate justice with
#classism
#racism
#colonialism
#patriarchy