#class issues

[sparksinthenight]

ONBB: It baffles me that schools throw away kids’ food or deny them a hot lunch because of inability to pay, BUT Covid hits and now my county provides 6 full meals a week to any kids under 18yo, enrolled or not. They always had the ability to feed kids, they just didn’t want to.

#school #school system #poverty #classism #school lunch #school lunches #social programs #help #community support #helping each other #class issues #class war

[womenaremypriority]

When people go like “if women don’t want to be raped, they should avoid wearing certain things and going into shady areas.” And of course that’s awful for many reasons we all know, but also.. there are women who live in poorer areas. What about them? Can they not go to work or go get some fresh air? Because so often I hear people say this sort of thing and sometimes it seems like they forget women also live there. It’s an individualist, rapist mindset and also very classist.

#My post #rape culture #rape tw #radical feminism #radfem #radblr #classism #racism #class issues

[acti-veg]

is it true it's cheaper to house homeless people than to not?

Research certainly suggests it is significantly cheaper to house homeless people than for them to remain homeless. I can’t give you figures for where you are but a local study where I live found that it would around five times cheaper.

It goes further than that though, since providing the proper social security net and welfare system required to keep people from becoming homeless in the first place is even cheaper. If 40,000 people were prevented from becoming homeless for one year in England it would save the public purse £370 million. Comparative research in the USA and Australia shows that the cost of preventing and solving homelessness is less than the cost of doing nothing at all.

The problem is not an economic one, it’s an ideological one. Many people are vehemently opposed to the idea of ‘handouts, despite the obvious societal benefit to having a generous welfare system. People underestimate how easy it would be to find themselves in that same position, when in fact most of the working class are just a redundancy and a broken boiler away from homelessness ourselves.

We also forget the fact that the threat of homelessness is a very useful tool for corporations, because how else are they going to get people to work in the slaughterhouses and the meat packing plants? An inadequate housing and welfare system is also what allows a class of landlords to exist, and to profit from housing insecurity and poverty in the way that they do.

#ask #homelessness #capitalism #class issues

[kiraleighart]

How do you know you're friends with one of these "middle classers thats never risked anything to save a life" like what are some of the tell tale signs they belong to this group of ppl?

oh damn I didn't think somebody would ask me this.

these are my soft tell-tale signs that a friend is part of "middle classers that have never risked anything to save a life:"

friend cannot be inconvenienced. an example is maybe waiting an extra 5 minutes for food at a historically busy restaurant and being wildly irritated like they should instantly be waited on. they don't have patience when it's on their time even when it makes sense to be patient. they're used to people meeting their needs first.

friend cannot be challenged. maybe they did something bad and you tell them, but they can't hear it unless you coddle them. barring a trauma response, they aren't used to being critiqued, which suggests they can't do responsibility or conflict mediation.

friend has no experience asking. you're looking for the inability to comprehend Needing To Ask. this can be something like you stating a benign boundary and them being upset AF. they assume much and expect all, which suggests they're used to things just working for them.

friend cannot make space. an example is making group plans and suddenly the plans revolve around their needs only. no negotiating. no thought to food allergies. no slight inconveniences for the group to have a better time. this suggests they aren't capable of not being the main character.

friend trusts cops. the easiest way to spot privilege is to ask your friend how they feel about the cops. try it sometime.

friend cannot rock the boat. disenfranchised folks get penalized for this. at the same time, we have to rock the boat to survive. if your friend refuses to take action on things that matter to them, if they won't speak up for others when they know something is wrong—and none of this seems trauma or a safety related—they will never stick their necks out for anyone. ever.

these behaviors by themselves and in small doses don't mean much. but together as a series of patterns? where comfort, status, and ego are protected at all costs? where authority is daddy-energy? where your friend expects to come first at all times?

yeah, they're someone who has not ever had to bear the responsibility of protecting someone even at cost to themselves.

folks like this can't entertain doing something like that. they will assume someone else will do it for them. privilege is a helluva drug.

#privilege #society #feminism #classism #inequality #capitalism #social justice #poverty #middle class #white feminism #politics #class issues #social issues

[disgustedbyinjustice]

Intro post!

Hi there!! My name is Juliana, and I have created this blog to promote visibility, inclusivity, and equality for all, especially in the disability, LGBTQ+, and feminist communities. I am pursuing my MA in Sociology and I am excited to put my energy and passion into this blog!

My goal here is to educate and inform, as well as connect with other individuals who are fighting for greater justice across our society. I am based in Washington, DC, and I would love to collaborate with other activists to mobilize movements for change across our country and hopefully, across the globe.

You can expect blog posts containing analyses of social phenomena, reproducible and educational infographics, databases of existing research on different issues, and much more! I firmly believe in the ability of empowered communities to empower individuals, and I also think that we all have a duty to care for others in order to create a culture where we will care for one another, and our behaviors and policies should embody this care.

If you are interested in or passionate about anything that I have mentioned in this post, please follow and reach out! I cannot wait to engage and produce content for this community of social justice advocates!

#social justice #social justice blog #sociology #anthropology #political activism #queer rights #queer theory #feminism #feminist theory #disability #disability advocacy #disability rights #lgbtq community #community support #disability community #disabled friendly #queer friendly #food insecurity #class issues #injustice #trans rights #socialism #radical empathy #caring #compassion #acceptance #visibility #academic #social change #rights

[chaos-in-one]

Growing up in mostly “bad” neighborhoods and then talking to people who grew up in mostly very upper middle class or above neighborhoods is such a cultural shock

Like

You’ll hear a loud ass noise or police sirens nearby and people will act like the world is fucking ending and it just doesn’t make sense because for most of my life shit like that was just your average Tuesday

Not to mention how they act about any areas that don’t “look” clean enough or look run down, every time how they treat stuff like that is extremely telling on their opinions on people like me and how out of touch they are with what was for me a normal life, sometimes what I would even consider a luxury, which leaves me shocked when they treat something I learned to cherish because it was more than what I had before or more than what other people I grew up seeing had like it’s horrifyingly bad.

And the blatant language difference??? The biggest one I’ve noticed is “bad” language like cussing and “crude” comments is a LOT more heavily ostricized among people who grew up upper middle to upper class. It made me realize from a really young age that these invisible “rules” for what way of speaking was acceptable was made to tell people like me apart and to give reason to see us as worse, as something wrong. How much the policing of how people talk is rooted in blatant classism. Just

The differences I see as a person who grew up poor in how much anyone growing up in these lower economic classes is seperated from those growing up well off or rich is almost shocking, even after dealing with the difference most of my life. And upsetting too, because it shows how much just being born or raised poor, something you can’t control, makes it harder to make it in this world where so much is based on how much money you have.

#classism #class issues

[glorious-spoon]

I'm a service worker at a high end coffee shop in a nice part of town. And being surrounded by pretty white middle or upper middle to full on UPPER class people makes me feel so aware of myself? I feel like I became aware of how differently I look and talk and move compared to them that even if I try to hide it it shows very clearly like its in my genetics. Like young girlsmy age come in with the prettiest blonde hair or balayage and manicured hands with nice wallets and they smell like expensive perfume like its other worldly like how are u just dropping $16 for a flat white gurl?? Even the boys you can tell and theymake no effort. Just jeans and shirt and backwards hat but you can TELL, newish iphones. especially their teeth and the Lululemon or ALO shorts. Like whats that world like? I can only imagine how you felt going inside one of those peoples actual houses? I think i'd faint from sensory overload id feel so uncomfortable also they seem. sooo nice and cordial but I feel like in their minds theyre calling me names idk how to explain it like there's nooo way they see me as an equal

OOF YEAH. there's something about the unconscious assumptions of wealth that are just really uncomfortable to be around. and it's not even like. WEALTH wealth, these people aren't necessarily multimillionaires, but they're rich enough to have casual conversations about how they spent $30k remodeling their kitchen or whatever and everything they own is new and expensive, and there are a lot of unspoken assumptions about the correct and normal way to dress and speak and behave, and it's just like... they are a completely different genre of person than me, and it feels very uncomfortable to try and fake it (case in point: i just had to look up what balayage is, lol).

like, i'm not broke. i have a job, my bills are paid. but i grew up in a trailer that was largely furnished from the salvation army. this is not my world.

#class issues

[thescentofrainonstone]

On Class in Britain and why the same kind of actor ends up getting our panties in a twist (see Hiddleston, Cumberbatch, Goode, etc...)

Isn't it peculiar that all this adoration and fandoms tend to be about white-cis mostly het (thought admittedly that's the more laxed of attributes) able thin, tall, pale but most importantly coming from riches guys?

You look at a Tom Hiddleston and his first headshots and roles and the wonder has got to be there: "how much time and means were available to him to get his degree from Oxbridge and then decide to do another entire BA on top of it at RADA?"

Admittedly he gets off easy going back historically("just" baronets in his line) when in his league we have Benedict Cumberbatch, whose existence is literally dependant on the slavery his direct ancestors built their empire on in Barbados, and were paid compensation when the end of slavery came to England. Finally his Wikipedia has a full description of this even though when I worked on the essay that took the Downton Abbey series and films as examples of the inhumane social divide the UK depends upon, it was all incredibly well swept under virtual rugs with a vague quote from Mother Cumberbatch advising her son to change his surname in case "they come after you for money" where money stands for "reparations" and considering the luxury of an arts career like the last few Cumberbatches have had is something intrinsically entrenched in wealth and privilege makes perfect sense if you ask me. A councillor in New York carries the same surname and she is Black. Slaves carried the surname of those who owned them.

Let that sink in: there is currently a commissiomer (and Professor at Columbia) in New York who carries the Cumberbatch surname because they are a direct descendant of the Slaves the Cumberbatches owned and owe their fortune to. Stacey Cumberbatch.

So yeah, when people think the UK is not the US, they Invented class and the divide that come with it. It is so crucial to come from a family that can afford you connections and the luxury to work for nothing while never risking bills or rent going unpaid.

And I guess what I'm trying to say is: it's ok for all the fandoms to salivate over anyone, I just think it's important we know why the media propels in front of our eyes the same prototype of Englishman over and over, and perpetrates the production of new pieces of media that casually seem naturally meant for white, rich, het passing people.

The system works like a bottleneck for privilege and I think the SAG-AFTRA strikes also show that: everyone that had some privilege and didn't do anything to average out the system will see their own reduced over time until only the tip of the top remains. And "eat the rich" is going to be another post but you get the gist.

That is to say, next time I go to Insole Court (the Victorian house where a Lot of A Discovery of Witches was filmed, including Matthew's "rooms at Oxford") will I touch every single book of the reading room because likely I will have touched something Matthew Goode touched when he was there filming? Sure.

I also do know that house was paid for by coal miners who actually died in a tragedy in the mines owned by the Insole family and that admittedly I find the only decent way to keep real estate built with the blood of people can just be that: give that back to the people.

It's about educated choices, that's what I'm trying to say.

Fun fact: I started watching a discovery of witches because after filming the essay at Insole Court, wanting to bring down the bourgeoisie, I learned the show was also filmed there. So i went and found it and now I have another white, pale, lanky, English twink to lose sleep over just because he's been given a character created by the mind of a woman who dreams enough, possibly because unfulfilled in some part of her life -because when we're happy we go out, we don't vomit pages over pages let's be honest -.

If none of those elegant white British men who embody the characters we love come from a program that allowed them to raise from the working class... or are anything but white or adhering to a white-er standard (Rege- Jean Page is the quintessential example of this, better than nothing but still, my point)...Maybe we should ask ourselves why, and how is that ok.

Just a random though on a day I wanted to go back to Insole Court for the aforesaid reason.

#adow #a discovery of witches #matthew goode #tom hiddleston #benedict cumberbatch #slavery #classism #class issues #downton abbey #white cis het #sag aftra #sag strike #rege jean page #fanfic #fanfiction #fandom #fanfiction writer

[theauthorpaula]

CLASS ISSUES AND FICTION

#writing #writers #inspiration #fiction #class issues #working class

[merkova2-0]

Actually, poor people are 100% capable of having babies and raising them comfortably and safely in a loving home.

#Stop telling poor people that they can’t be good parents just because they’re poor

#class issues #children #family #poverty #eat the rich #parenting #vent #ted talks #anti capitalist

[nando161mando]

#culture wars #class war #classism #class issues #classist #161 #1312 #antifa #antifascist #antifaschistische aktion #antinazi #antiauthoritarian #anti capitalism #anticapitalista #anti capitalist love notes #anticapitalistically #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #eat the rich #eat the fucking rich #antiwork #anti slavery

[womenaremypriority]

Saying “ don’t buy new technology for Christmas” is literally the BARE MINIMUM that can be done for the DRC but I know that so many people won’t care. You can go without an iPhone 15 or whatever number it’s on. Pathetic behavior

#My post #class issues #imperialism #colonialism #DRC #Congo #free congo #congo genocide

[haggishlyhagging]

Some time after mid-century, things changed in ways that historians who have believed in the myth of a classless America are just beginning to examine. (These slow reshufflings of social practice can't be marked off, like battles or elections, by precise dates.) Perhaps the upheaval of the Civil War made people more anxious to assign a fixed order to people and things. Certainly the economic gap between rich and poor widened as the century went on, with more and more of the country's wealth coming into the hands of fewer and fewer men. And contrary to the cherished belief in the self-made man, the hereditary "haves" spun patterns of living far glossier than those of the "have nots." Manners, not just money, marked off one class from another.

And subtly the definition of woman's sphere changed. It had been a place where woman performed all those domestic duties from washing clothes to teaching numbers—for the greater good of her husband, her family, and hence (so the story went) of the whole society and of God himself. It became instead a place in which the true lady did nothing. At least by 1857 when Mrs. C. S. Hilborn, a former millworker, took up her pen to denounce the useless "modern aristocracy," the difference between the woman and the lady was clear. On the one hand was the "poor mother, who takes in washing, and scrubs and toils and sweats, until she looks like the skeleton of a perpetual motion." On the other was the lady “who arrays herself for a street promenade as though for a shop window exhibition, with consequential airs and robes spanning the sidewalks, and an expression of arrogant conceit which says to every passer by ‘did you ever see anything half so magnificently beautiful as I am?’”The outward differences between the lady and the woman had always been there, but they grew more apparent as time went on. The narrow upper class grew richer, more ostentatious, more conspicuous, while the lower classes, augmented by hordes of immigrants, spread around them. At the turn of the century, even as Veblen coined the term conspicuous consumption to describe the chief activity of the rich, Lester Ward, the leading sociologist of his day, estimated the poor at 80 percent of the population.

At the time, the chief difference between the upper and the lower classes was thought to lie not in the pocketbook but in the heart and mind. As Ward put it, the idea that "there exists a fundamental difference based on inherent qualities and belonging to the nature of things ... clings to the mind of man, and modern social classes are conceived to be marked off from one another by nature." At its simplest the fundamental difference between the classes was this: the rich were physically, intellectually, and morally superior; the poor physically, intellectually, and morally inferior, and indeed often depraved. As William Graham Sumner, another of sociology's founding fathers put it: "Only a small fraction of the human race have as yet, by thousands of years of struggle, been partially emancipated from poverty, ignorance, and brutishness." That small portion, "naturally," was the ruling class. What made Mrs. Hilborn (a member of the lower 80 percent) so angry was that the ladies of the ruling class were not only useless but were praised as morally superior beings on that account. As Veblen described the beliefs of the ruling class: "Abstention from labour is not only a honorific or meritorious act, but it presently comes to be a requisite of decency.... Prescription ends by making labour not only disreputable in the eyes of the community, but morally impossible to the noble freeborn man [and his lady], and incompatible with a worthy life."

When men dragged this doctrine, along with their other mythical baggage, into the courtroom, they compounded inequity. The true lady—idle, respectable, proper, and useless—could do no wrong. The woman, however, might be capable of almost anything; she could not be punished too severely. So "justice" for women in the criminal court shook down—as had so many other aspects of American life—to the basis of social class.

For black women there was no justice at all. There are few cases of black women in this book because as often as not they were punished—even hanged or burned—without legal proceeding. Sometimes their executions—legal or illegal—were mentioned in a line or two in a newspaper. A "female slave" was hanged, they reported, or "a colored female." Rarely was her name given, and almost never her story. And never was there any talk of protecting a delicate female, of saving a pretty neck. Nothing was said of refinement and sensibility and true womanhood. On the same day that Ann Evards Wright Bilansky was hanged in Minnesota—March 23, 1860–two black women, speedily arrested and convicted for the murder of one Dr. Croxton, were hanged in Essex County, Virginia. There was no talk of commuting their sentences, no talk even of preparing their immortal souls for death. Their names—the only names the white world allowed them—were Ann and Eliza.

-Ann Jones, Women Who Kill

#ann jones #female killers #amerika #american history #women’s history #class issues #racism

[sifya]

Vampire society revolution

I really hope this happen in universe of VNC but I know possibilities are very low because it is a manga that talk about vampires.

It is very hard in vampire stories not being classist, despite the presence of unfair society because main characters benefit from that, and rebels are usually greed power(for example first Blade movie). Only story I remember the main character turned in rebel, it is Underground.

And because Japanise society is still pretty classist, I don't remember a lot mangas that take part of rebels.

For example in Vampire Knight , ordinary vampires were still loyal to purebloods and senate despite being the source of all their problems.

In VNC we can see how much is unfair vampire society, which also explains why vampires take risk to live in human world.

1)A corrupt Senate who make very clear difference approach in base of social class. Amelia and Loki are both curse-bearers, but Amelia was kept in prison and in chains like animal for caution, and if vanitas failed to show his ability of cure, she 'd be killed.

Loki despite being a curse-bearers, not only his life is spared but he lives confortably.

2)Members of senate who protect Naemia, the source of curses, Same people who collaborate with Church in horrible experiment on vampires.

3)Bourreau, children of traitors who need to pay for sin of their parents by fighing forever until their death. They can escape from this destiny only if they become a knight, which means by be liked by powerful vampire.

4)slaves,i don't need to say more

5) Genocide of twins(which we don't know why)

6) Rid off of Archiviste clan. I know it is not confermed but because most vampires live in Altus ,it is more probably the attack was from other vampires.And because Archiviste's power maybe they found out unconfortable truth,

7) A govement has never tried to cure the curse-bearers, a respectable govement who'd work their bu^^s hard for looking a solution

8) They are making decisions that 'd turn in a war ( I blame also Church), which that will affect commun vampires.

9) If truth about naemia or doctor Moreau come out, there is no way there wouldn't be a revolt.

But I really think a revolution in VNC would be a great plot twist and would give a lot character development to main vampires, and possible allies for Vanitas.

Thinking of Jeanne meets an another bourreau who reprimands her cause she still serve a corrupt senate who using them like tool for killing in fact more dissidents or innocents than real enemies.

Being looking down because bourreau make the dirty job.

But because Luca is nice with her,nothing matters.

Noè really faces the situation of his clan and slavery. Don't matter what somebody did, nobody deserve a genocide or becoming a slave.

Domi understands she doesn't want serve ideals of her family, who protect only status quo. Finding out the real reaction why twins are cursed and not being anymore "Louis should be alive." but " Why don't both us deserve to live a good life?"

Vanitas finding out more allies,now main character don't have a stand agaist charlatan, not in force or political power.

Come on , we are in France, a country of revolutions! And like a say revolution plot in a royal vampire story is very rare.

I want this revolution be like " Revolution become violent when peaceful way failed" and " People shouldn't be afraid of govement, but it should." No like no" both side are right and oppressed part is whining."

#vnc #vanitas no carte #vnc theory #theory #revolution #classism #class issues #the case study of vanitas #vnc meta

[angrylesbianstereotype]

My problem with the portrayal of the “liberal elite” in media isn’t that it doesn’t exist, because it does to an extent; there are rich assholes profiting of the backs of the general public on both sides of the political spectrum, and there is definitely that subset of the 1% that like to play at being progressive (both sides put on a show of caring about the working class; Republicans make their bag stoking the fears of poor white conservatives and Democrats make theirs off of hollow promises of better things to come). I just think it’s kind of weird that, in contemporary media, the “liberal elite” are always Black or gay or Jewish, even though irl they’re mostly WASPS who pay lip service to supporting these communities while doing everything in their considerable power to keep that power consolidated. And when these characters have foils said foils are almost always poor white southern folk, never the poc who make up the majority percentage of working class people in the U.S. And idk y’all but it kind of feels like the implication isn’t so much “wealthy liberals are full of shit” which is true, and more both sides-ing the issue of bigotry by subtly endorsing the “this marginalized demographic has more power than they let on and are a legitimate threat to the white working class” narrative that Republican politicians use to rile their base into Frankenstein mobs. It feels like an extremely racist homophobic dangerous narrative to be perpetuating, ironically masquerading as progressive.

#vengeance 2022 is a great movie but it kind of has this problem #texas chainsaw 2022 is a shit garbage movie that definitely has this problem #then there’s that show search party #just some examples #media discourse #class issues #racism #homophobia #antisemitism

[etherealsign282]

Some people hate classism til they meet someone who was worse off than them.

They'll make you feel weird and isolated but expect it to be okay because they totally still relate, just differently.

Growing up poor doesn't mean you get to embarrass other poor people just because you never had to go through what they did. Or because they took a different route than you.

#classism #class issues #classist #poor #growing up poor #being poor #isolated #embarrasment #embarrassing