Its seriously the biggest problem right now

Edit: hurr durr bullets and gulag, serious replies only pls

  • funkfresh [they/them]
    hexagon
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    4 years ago

    To a point I agree with that too which is why I don't have many friends where I live right now but jeez that makes prospects real bleak

    • THE_FUNNY [none/use name,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Everyone should understand that we are left as we wish to end all forms of oppression. This is an uncompromising position, my identity as a worker does not exist in a vacuum. Most women are not guaranteed the ability to have time to give birth. In a country like the United States, leave for her partners is unheard of.

      As a worker I am capable of relating to other people whose identity I don't share. BIPOC workers are almost exclusively in lower positions of business hierarchy, and this can be connected to many other reasons and identities.

      The disabled are unmet in accomodation, losing talented workers and forcing them into menial labor.

      Transgender, gender-noncomforming; romantic and sexual minorities are met with workplace harassment. They were unable to quality for the same benefits as couples or be recognised as what they even are until only recently. They can be excluded from entire fields and have to chose between unaccepting workplaces that force them to deny their own self.

      A name on a resume such as Jamal is associated with Muslims, black, and brown people has a higher chance of being passed over. Yet, a Muslim named Abraham has a higher chance. Why does this happen?

      Without intersectionality there is no solidarity between workers. To not understand our shared oppression is reactionary. Explain to them that we will only perpetuate our own oppression by enforcing the divides decided by our shared oppression.

      Edit: I'd like to note the large amount of trans comrades I personally know who work for Starbucks. They are so intelligent and yet why? It's often the only place that offers trans healthcare insurance.

        • THE_FUNNY [none/use name,comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          Speaking of Parenti.


          Power is always more secure when cooptive, covert, and manipulative than when nakedly brutish. The support elicited through the control of minds is more durable than the support extracted at the point of a bayonet. The essentially undemocratic nature of the mainstream media, like the other business-dominated institutions of society, must be hidden behind a neutralistic, voluntaristic, pluralistic facade.

          "For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent.... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions," writes Herbert Schiller.