#racism and classism

[inkskinned]

you have to go to work so you can pay for your doctor, who is not taking your insurance right now, and if you say i can't afford the doctor's you are told - get a better job. it is very sad that you are unwell, yes, but maybe you should have thought about that before not having a better job.

(where is the better job? who is giving out these better jobs? you are sick, you are hurting - how the hell are you supposed to be well enough for this better job?)

but you go to the doctor because you had the nerve to be hurt or sick or whatever else. and they tell you that it is because you have anxiety. you try your best. you are a self-advocate. you've done the reading (which sometimes pisses them off worse, honestly). you say it is actually adding to my anxiety, it is effecting my quality of life. so they say that you are fat. they say that all young people have this happen to them, isn't it a medical marvel! they say that you should eat more vegetables. they say that you probably just need to lose a little more weight, and that you are faking it for attention.

(what attention could this doctor possibly give? what validation? that's their fucking job, isn't it?)

there is always a hypochondriac, right. someone always tells you about a hypochondriac. or someone who is unnecessarily aggressive during the worst days of their life. or someone looking "for a quick fix". or some idiot who wasn't educated about how to properly care for themselves who just abandons their treatment. and again, the hypochondriac, the overly-cautious hysteric. these people don't deserve to be treated like humans (right), and since you might be one of these people, you also don't get treated like a human. because those people can really fuck with the system, you now have to pay for it. and besides. you're actually probably faking it.

(more often than not, you find a 2:1 ratio of these stories. for every "hypochondriac", there are 2 people who knew something was wrong, and yet nobody could fucking find it. the story often ends with pointless suffering. the story often ends with and now it's too late, and it's going to kill me.)

you are actually just making excuses. someone else got that procedure or that diagnosis and he's fine, you should be fine too. someone else said they watched a documentary about other inspirational people with your exact same condition, maybe you should be inspirational, too. you're just too morbid. your pain and your experience is probably just not statistically concerning. it is all self-reported anyway, and you're just being a baby.

(once, while sitting down in the middle of making coffee, you had the sudden, horrible thought - i could kill myself to make the pain stop. you had to call your best friend after that. had to pet your dog. had to cry about it in the shower. you won't, but that moment - god, fuck. the pain just goes on and on.)

you know someone who went in for routine surgery and said i still feel everything. they told her to just relax. it took her kicking and screaming before they figured out she wasn't lying - the anesthetic drip hadn't been working. you know someone who went in for severe migraines who was told drink water and lose weight. you know someone who was actively bleeding out and throwing up in the ER and was told you're just having a bad period.

in the ER there are always these little posters saying things like "don't wait! get checked today!" and you think about how often you do wait. how often the days spool out. you once waited a full week before seeing the doctor for what you thought was a sprained wrist. it had actually been broken - they had to rebreak it to set it.

but you go into the doctor. the problem you're having is immediate. the person behind the counter frowns and says we're not taking your insurance. you will be paying for this out-of-pocket.

they send you home with tylenol and a little health packet about weight loss or anxiety or attention deficit. on the front it has your birthday and diagnosis. you think about crying, and the words swim. it might as well say go fuck yourself. it might as well say you're a fucking idiot. it might as well say light your money on fire and lie down in it. and the entire fucking time - the problem persists.

it's okay. it's okay, it's just another thing, you think. it's just another thing i have to learn to live with.

#spilled ink #warm up #can you tell what i'm mad about today specifically #i will say that there are a LOT of things that go into this. like a lot. this is ungendered and unspecific for a reason #it isn't just sexism. it's also racism. and ableism. and honestly classism. #and before a healthcare professional reads this as a personal attack: i understand ur burnt out #we are ALSO burnt out. your situation is also dire. this is not an attack on you. #this is a commentary on the incredible amounts of bigotry that lie at the heart of capitalism #where people have to pay money out of pocket to be told to fuck off. #your job is important. so is our humanity. and if you cannot accept that people are fucking mad as hell #at the industry - you are probably not listening . #anyway at some point im gonna write a piece about sexism specifically in medical shit #but i don't want terfs clowning in it bc they can't understand nuance #> it is true that ppl w/a uterus are more likely to experience medical malpractice & dismissal globally #> it is also true that trans people experience an equally fucked up and bad time in the medical field #> great news! the medical industrial complex is an equal opportunity life ruiner :) #(if you find it necessary to go into a debate about biology while discussing medical malpractice #i want to warn you that you're misunderstanding the issue. because guess what. #cis MEN might experience this. particularly black men. particularly disabled men. #so YES having a uterus can lead to more trouble for you. but this happens a LOT. #instead of fighting those ALSO experiencing your pain.... try working WITH them. #which btw. is like. actual feminism.)

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[macbethz]

what i think REALLY works about dot and bubble is it plays with the genre conventions of doctor who itself. We've seen doctor lite episodes like this, we know how they work. There's person who needs to be saved who gets indirect help from the doctor, maybe they're flawed and learn a lesson at the end, maybe they're part of some flawed society that is just kind of set dressing or ends up being torn down at the end without examination. About halfway through the episode I was ready to brush this off as a fun but predictable classic rtd ep that wasn't really anything special. Then from the the betrayal of ricky September on its like watching a house of cards that has been built the entire episode without us noticing collapse into a perfect stack

“Oh well of course you could see them being racist the whole time” the thing is sometimes doctor who is just like that. RTD EPISODES have historically just been like that, either in that they are microagressions in themselves or have bigoted characters/worlds that go unexamined. And I think this episode performed an absolutely insane self aware slight of hand that relies on both you and the writers knowing that doctor who and sci fi in general has a racism problem. The ending recontextualizes things in the episode you may initially have brushed off as an unfortunate BBC or science fiction moment (all white cast, manifest destiny language) as symptomatic of larger societal issues, thus in turn recontextualizing missed moments of bigotry in the shows own history

#editing the post to include my reblog addition in case ppl see it in the tags #LIKE OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD #i think the end could have been. a little subtler with the specific script but seeing as people still dont get the racism and classism WHIL #IT WAS THAT HEAVY HANDED maybe its for the best #me when i saw they were all white in the early part: is this intentional commentary or a bbc casting moment #warlock wartalks #dw spoilers #doctor who

[evie-doesnt-write]

Watching Dungeon Meshi

#just to be clear i fucking love this about dunmeshi #often media are too scared and depict themes of racism and classism as bad(tm) (which it is ofc but they portray in a very shallow way) #and only allow bad guys to be racist #or if a good character is racist then they have a quick arc of ‘oh no racism is bad(tm)’ and then everything is better #ryoko kui is excellent at world building and this allows us to understand the nuance of these characters and where prejudice stems from #and it’s not excused or diminished it’s very much portrayed as an issue that only breeds more prejudice #and thus things need to be changed both on an individual and societal level #marcille donato #dungeon meshi #falin touden #ryoko kui #dunmeshi #laios touden #chilchuk tims #kabru of utaya #izutsumi #literally every character #they are all racist af and i love them and ryoko kui for it

[cobraonthecob]

actually you know what. i'm so done with this fandom acting like honda wanting a japanese driver on the grid in order to go through with the partnership was like holding red bull at gunpoint and grabbing some random japanese guy off the street and putting them in an F1 car

yuki's career is so very different from so many other drivers; guanyu had to move to britain to have a more competitive karting field, but yuki remained in japan until after two years of F4 japan (where he placed 3rd in his first year and 1st in his second). he went to italy - at the age of 18/19 - to compete in F3 italy, before moving on to F2 WHERE HE CAME P3. ONE POINT BEHIND CALLUM ILLOT AND 15 BEHIND MICK, BOTH OF WHOM WERE ON THEIR SECOND FULL YEARS IN F2

yes, honda may have asked for a japanese driver to be on the grid, but they had managed to find the best one to be under the red bull-honda program and HE MANAGED TO GET INTO F1. yuki not only had to sign onto the right team at the right time, he had to beat way more experienced drivers than him AND HE DID (for context: robert was P4 in F2 2020, scored 177 points, yuki scored 200).

so yeah. respect on yuki's name, especially when multiple drivers of color who weren't born+grew up in europe have spoken about how hard it is to get into f1 if you're not living in europe already.

don't fucking @ me about the european drivers who learned english as a second language. this isn't about them

#nightfalcon posts #formula 1 #f1 #yuki tsunoda #also he had to learn english the entire time so there's that fun time #f1: a fun study of classism xenophobia and racism

[marzipanandminutiae]

People since the Dawn of gothic literature: girl help the obvious metaphor for larger societal issues is objectively sexy

#gothic literature #I just started House of Hunger and it is clearly going to be an exploration of racism and classism via vampires #which is great! except O No You Are Traveling To A Debauched Aristocratic House #To Be Fed Upon By A Hot Lady Vampire #is a tough dynamic NOT to root for

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

If you’re in an openly racist party led by outlandishly racist figures you have to walk on eggshells in order to remain a grifting useful idiot in that party.

Shame on every marginalized person that sides with the RepubliKKKlan Party of bigotry and prejudice. You are condemning millions to persecution and death just so you can make a few dollars riding on their coat tails.

#Nimaratta Nikki Randhawa Haley #republican hypocrisy #traitor trump #crooked donald #republican assholes #donald trump #Republican racism #Republican bigotry #Republican prejudice #Republican hatred #Republican homophobia #Republican sexism #Republican elitism #Republican xenophobia #Republican classism #Republican corruption #Republican grifters #useful idiots #quislings #traitors #racism #Ron DeSatan #Republican indifference

[nonbinarymlm]

The thing is, most people (in the US and Western countries at least, that’s where my experience is from) have some forms of privilege some forms of oppression. This isn’t saying everyone is equally oppressed and privileged, but most people have privilege in at least one way and oppression in at least one way.

And if you experience oppression in some ways and privilege, it’s much easier to see your oppression then you privilege.

Privilege is largely invisible to those who have it. Oppression grates against you all the time. So it’s much easier to see the forms of oppression you experience then the forms of privilege.

That’s why it’s so important for us all to listen to each other and not play Oppression Olympics. You can face very real oppression that really affects your life, and still learn a lot from other people who face other forms of oppression that you don’t. We have to listen to each other. In the queer community especially I think this is important, because there’s so many different ways to be oppressed and to be privileged.

#oppression #privilege #lgbtq #intersectionality #inter community discussion #discussion #discourse #homophobia #transphobia #racism #classism #intersexism #etc etc #white queers #cis gays #male privilege #white privilege #able-bodied privilege #and many more #thoughts #loving queue

[robotpussy]

not to harp back to a few days ago but the whole "taking phone calls in public/loud music in public/playing music and videos outloud in public is rude etc. (the list could go on)" argument is not only absurd,

(not all public spaces are going to be silent its is unrealistic, outside cannot cater to every single person as everybody has different needs, but this is not me dismissing there are concerns for people who may have sensory 'issues' or may be bothered by loud sounds)

but has ties to racism and classism, especially considering that many nonblack and white people call the police about "noise complaints" on black and brown people and poor people because the music being played at a party is 'too loud' or music from a car is being played 'too loud', which leads to them getting arrested or killed.

It also has links to gentrification, it is known that people who do complain about a community being too loud are clearly not familiar with the cultures in that area and that loud noise being a nuisance is a clear sign you are coming into a culture that isn't yours

anyway i think some of you need to read the article linked because the influx of these types of arguments is concerning.

#articles #white supermacy #gentrification #racism #ableism #classism #ref #antiblackness #like as a black person i know drums and 'loud instuments' are important to the diaspora - black people ARE 'loud' and that is #ok it is our culture and its beautiful idgaf and I will not sit here and pretend that the whole 'outside needs to be silent' thing #is not aimed at black ppl. this also goes back to the whole weird hatred ppl have children #with ppl saying they hate it when babies cry in public and kids shouldn't go outside because they are noisy #its so very strange to me

[lazylittledragon]

if one more alt character gets saddled with the "smells bad/doesn't shower" headcanon i'm going to start swinging

#ramble #we had this with eddie and now hobie and i can't POSSIBLY think why #oh whoops you accidentally let your racism/classism/miscellaneous prejudice show #it also feeds into the thing i hate where alternative fashion is only acceptable if it's perfectly coordinated and aesthetically pleasing #which is so aggressively anti alternative #it just shows that you think it's a fashion statement and not an ideology

[theconcealedweapon]

An injustice happens.

You don't get involved.

Maybe it's because you're nonconfrontational. Maybe it's because you're worried about consequences for getting involved. Maybe it's because you don't want to pick a side without knowing the whole story. Maybe it's because you're too busy working and taking care of your family. Maybe it's because you don't know how to get involved the right way and you're afraid of making it worse.

And those are all valid reasons if they're the truth.

But when the victims of the injustice fight back, you're suddenly able to get involved with exactly zero hesitation in order to condemn the protest. You're suddenly 100% unafraid of any consequences for getting involved. You're suddenly able to pick a side in no time flat. You suddenly stumble upon the time and energy to get involved despite your busy and hectic schedule. You suddenly know exactly how to get involved and exactly how to phrase your beliefs.

Your reasons for not getting involved were bullshit the entire time.

#racism #classism #wealthy privilege #police brutality

[transjudas]

bonus:

#ofmd #ofmdedit #ofmdaily #ofmdsource #ofmdblog #our flag means death #ed teach #edward teach #stede bonnet #blackbonnet #racism #classism #userkristi #usereena #alivedean #userlauren

[decolonize-the-left]

The Israeli army enters Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis with heavy tank and machine gun fire, forcing everyone inside to evacuate and flee for their lives.

Rafah exodus begins as Israel’s military steps up air raids and artillery fire before a feared ground operation on the southern city once designated a “safe zone”.

Israel “must listen to its friends and the international community” saying civilians cannot be made to “pay the price of defeating Hamas”, leaders of Australia, New Zealand and Canada say.

Israel’s attacks on Gaza have killed at least 28,663 Palestinians and wounded 68,395 since October 7. The death toll in Israel from the October 7 Hamas-led attacks stands at 1,139.

....kinda just seems like they want people to stop talking about the genocide that Israel is definitely, without a doubt committing.

#Palestine #Gaza #Rafah #Khan Younis #Nasser #PRCS #qatar #end the occupation #free Palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #social justice #lgbt #queer #leftist #biden #free palestine #capitalism #classism #racism #islamophobia #Colonization #settler colonialism #neocolonialism #reblog #current events #news #human rights #global solidarity #indigenous solidarity

[lifewithchronicpain]

At the beginning of the month, this local news clip started making the rounds online. It shows a woman in a courtroom, charged with a grim crime: abuse of a corpse. The corpse here, it was her own fetus. Brittany Watts is the woman facing these potential charges. She had a miscarriage at home. Suddenly, that information was very, very public. Watts looks frail and overwhelmed in front of the judge. Her lawyer rubs her back to comfort her. Mary Ziegler is a law professor who has been following the Watts case closely. She’s written books like Roe: The History of a National Obsession and Reproduction and the Constitution in the United States. She says cases like this one will tell you a lot about how the limits of reproductive rights are being tested right now. “We’ve been promised by a lot of legislators that the laws are not intended to target women. But the visual of someone like Brittany Watts being prosecuted for something like this was pretty striking.”

#abortion rights #women's health #women's rights #healthcare #abortion #racism #sexism #classism #ableism #article

[leikeliscomet]

Its funny how people talk about classism and working class rep in RTD1 but casually say they're happy Martha wasn't working class bc 'it would've been bad representation' in the same breath. Yh, there's a lot of damaging hood stereotypes out there but being working class whilst Black doesn't automatically make the character bad. We're not problematic just for existing. If anything, Martha being a working-class Black woman becoming a doctor would've been even more groundbreaking, especially bc the average Black Brit is working-class or below. Even Freema Agyeman herself grew up on a council estate. That could've been really inspirational. The idea that UK discrimination ignores race and only focuses on class is false especially if u look at how the Windrush were treated because they were working class AND Black/of colour (Tory party appealing to white working classes with anti-immigrant rhetoric, Sikh and Muslim workers making their own unions bc they were excluded, West Indians being denied rent etc.). RTD fans love to create a split where Rose's working class rep and Martha's Black rep exist in boxes that don't ever touch but they do. I've seen so many 'but Martha's middle class so I couldn't relate to her' which is funny bc apart from ignoring all the Black fans that couldn't relate to most characters in the show anyway, a lot of us still related to Rose. South and East London are have huge multiracial and multicultural working class communities. We deserve to be represented too. We exist. Working class isn't a synonym for white.

It just says a lot how much RTD and Rose are gassed for destigmatising working class characters but it would've been sooo bad if those characters were Black lol. 'Chav' and 'roadman' have become removed from their OG meanings and are now aesthetics and trends but the actual people living their lives are still living the stigma. You lot love 'chavs' as in cute y2k fits on a conventionally attractive white woman but lord forbid a hypothetical Black person that's unemployed, broke and speaking Black Brit Vernacular getting that doccy who screentime bc that's a bit too ghetto™ apparently. It also says u lot have limited imagination. Attack the Block and The Kitchen proved Black working-class characters can exist in sci-fi and if we're gonna go there... they're doing more for working-class rep rn than RTD1 almost 2 decades ago.

Martha could've walked around in a northface jacket with half a tub of eco styler on her head and she still would've been great idc!

#you lot don't deserve hood martha! #martha jones #rose tyler #rtd era #classism #fandom antiblackness #fandom racism

[odinsblog]

“If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.”

👉🏿 https://sfstandard.com/2024/04/19/san-francisco-developer-sia-tahbazof-corruption-sentenced/

“If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.”

👉🏿 https://apnews.com/article/ken-paxton-texas-securities-fraud-9ed5eecc30c1f967ec51f7e58ad9d0af

“If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.”

#politics #sia tahbazof #ken paxton #donald trump #white privilege #racism #classism #if the penalty for a crime is a fine then that law only exists for the lower classes #trump trial #keith mchenry