#social classism

[incorrect-web-novels]

It's making me slightly insane how some ppl are seemingly trying to "correct" the idea that Mianmian was discriminated against for being a woman when she questioned the prevailing narrative that Wei Wuxian was killing indiscriminately.

Suddenly, someone sneered, "You can stop arguing. We don't want to hear the comments of someone who has other motives."

The woman's face flushed. She raised her voice, "Explain things. What do you mean I have other motives?"

The person replied, "There's no need for me to say anything. You know, deep down, and we know too. You fell for him back in the cave of the Xuanwu just because he flirted with you? You're still arguing for him, calling white black no matter how irrational it is. Ha, women will always be women."

- Exiled Rebels, Recklessness (2)

"Who does she think she is... leaving as she pleases? Who cares? What's she doing this to prove?"

Soon, some began to agree, "Women will always be women. They quit just after you say a few harsh words. She'll definitely come back on her own, a couple of days later."

"There's no doubt. After all, she finally managed to turn from the daughter of a servant to a disciple, haha..."

- Exiled Rebels, Recklessness (2)

This is right after Lan Wangji directly contradicts Jin Guangshan's version of Wei Wuxian's confrontation at the banquet in search of Wen Ning & is awkwardly brushed off:

Suddenly, an indifferent voice spoke up, "No."

Jin GuangShan was in the middle of his fabrication. Hearing this, he paused in surprise, turning along with the crowd to see who it was.

Lan WangJi sat with his back straight, speaking in a tone of absolute tranquility, "I did not hear Wei Ying say this. I did not hear him express the slightest disrespect towards Sect Leader Jiang either."

Lan WangJi rarely spoke when he was outside. Even when they debated cultivation techniques during Discussion Conferences, he only answered when others questioned or challenged him. With utmost concision, he overcame, without fault, the lengthy arguments of others. Apart from this, he almost never spoke up. And thus, when Jin GuangShan was interrupted by him, he experienced a far greater shock than annoyance. But after all, his fabrication was exposed right in front of so many. He felt a bit awkward.

The good thing was that, not long after he felt awkward, Jin GuangYao came to save the day, exclaiming, "Really? That day, Young Master Wei busted into Koi Tower with such force. He said too many things, one more shocking than the next. Perhaps he said a few things that were along those lines. I can't remember them either."

His memory could only be equal to Lan WangJi's, if not better. As soon as he heard it, Nie MingJue knew that he was fibbing on purpose, frowning slightly

Jin GuangShan followed the transition, "That's right. Anyhow, his attitude has always been arrogant."

- Exiled Rebels, Recklessness (2)

The focus of this scene is the double standards between a male heir to a prominent sect and a female disciple born from a servant - gender and social class. It is more than clear that Wei Wuxian and Mianmian are being looked down upon for "stepping out of line" due to their lineage (as well as Mianmian for her gender).

Like, there are other factors at play in this scene, and I'm a big fan of alternative interpretations, but it's not wrong to say Mianmian is being a fucking badass in this scene by questioning and rebuking bigots, even if there's no real "reckoning" or retribution for said bigots. It was one of - if not the - most memorable scenes for me, and it’s driving me a little nuts seeing ppl trying to "Um, Actually" it

#not a quote #mdzs #mianmian #luo qingyang #meta #mdzs meta #I get characterization and scenes wrong all the time so no hate really meant #and I do see how this can be interpreted as a more tragic scene than a girlboss scene #but I'm not wrong lol. also it was very brave so I do consider her a girlboss in a bad situation. maybe just not that word idk #idk what the common consensus on this scene is tbh. but if I don't talk about it I might scream #my posts #sexism #misogyny #social classism #<-idk what the exact word is #discourse

[theconcealedweapon]

Give them $10 for cleaning the bathroom. Take $7 of it and give it to their sibling who did no work but owns the cleaning supplies. That's exactly how capitalism works. People who hate socialism always end up describing capitalism.

#socialism #capitalism #wealthy privilege #classism

[intersectionalpraxis]

Capitalism is killing people in so many ways, and the medical industrial complex is one of them. Healthcare should always be a universal right -both fair and equitable access, but in many cases it is not... the mass injustices.

#feminist #social justice #current events #current news #public health #health care #medical care #health and wellness #healthcare #medical industrial complex #medical industry #capitalism is evil #capitalism kills #abolish capitalism #capitalism #treatment #classism #poverty #systemic inequality #systemic injustice #united states

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

bUt WhAt AbOut MuH tOoThBrUsH???

#class war #class warfare #classism #capitalism #Marx #private property #socialism #communism #karl marx

[bisexualseraphim]

I cannot stress enough how “eat the rich” is referring to Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg and not your neighbour Jerry who makes 100k a year as a surgeon and owns a farmhouse

#eat the rich #classism #socialism #elon musk #jeff bezos #mark zuckerberg #capitalism #anti capitalism

[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

[lilithism1848]

Atrocities US committed against AFRICA

In early 2017, the US began conducting drone strikes in Somalia against Al Shabab militants. An attack on July 16th killed 8 people.

In 1998, the US bombed the Al Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Sudan, killing one employee and wounding 11. It was the largest pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum, producing medicine both for human and veterinary use. The US had acted on false evidence of a VX nerve agent from a single soil sample, and later used a false witness to cover for the attack. It was the only pharmaceutical factory in Africa not under US control.

In June 1982, with the help of CIA money and arms, Hissene Habre , dubbed Africa’s Pinochet, takes power in Chad. His secret police, use methods of torture including the burning the body of the detainee with incandescent objects, spraying gas into their eyes, ears and nose, forced swallowing of water, and forcing the mouths of detainees around the exhaust pipes of running cars. Habré’s government also periodically engaged in ethnic cleansing against groups such as the Sara, Hadjerai and the Zaghawa, killing and arresting group members en masse when it was perceived that their leaders posed a threat to the regime. Human Rights Watch claimed that Habre was responsible for thousands of killings. In 2001, while living in Senegal, he was almost tried for crimes committed by him in Chad. However, a court there blocked these proceedings. Then human rights people decided to pursue the case in Belgium, because some of Habre’s torture victims lived there. The U.S., in June 2003, told Belgium that it risked losing its status as host to NATO’s headquarters if it allowed such a legal proceeding to happen. So the result was that the law that allowed victims to file complaints in Belgium for atrocities committed abroad was repealed. However, two months later a new law was passed which made special provision for the continuation of the case against Habre. In May 2016 he was found guilty of human-rights abuses, including rape, sexual slavery and ordering the killing of 40,000 people, and sentenced to life in prison.

In the 1980s, Reagan maintains a close relationship with the Apartheid South african government, called constructive engagement, while secretly funding it in the hopes of creating a bulwark of anti-communism and preventing a marxist party from taking power, as happened in angola. Later on, in the wars against Apartheid in South Africa and Angola, in which cuban and anti-apartheid forces fought the white south african government, the US supplied south africa with nuclear weapons via Israel.

In 1975, Henry Kissinger launches a CIA-backed war in Angola, backing the brutal anti-communist leader of UNITAS, Jonas Savimbi, against Agostinho Neto and his Marxist-Leninst MPLA party, creating a civil war lasting for 30 years. The CIA financed a covert invasion via neighboring Zaire and a drive on the Angolan capital by the U.S. ally, South Africa. Congress continues to fund UNITAS, and their south-african apartheid allies until the late 1980s. By the end of the war, more than 500,000 people had died and over one million had been internally displaced.

In 1966, a CIA-backed military coup overthrows he widely popular Pan-Africanist and Marxist leader Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana, inviting the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to take a lead role in managing the economy. With this reversal, accentuated by the expulsion of immigrants and a new willingness to negotiate with apartheid South Africa, Ghana lost a good deal of its stature in the eyes of African nationalists.

In 1965, a CIA-backed military coup installs Mobutu Sese Seko, described as the “archetypal African dictator” in Congo. The hated and repressive Mobutu exploits his desperately poor country for billions.

In 1962, a tip from a CIA spy in South Africa lead to the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela, due to his pro-USSR leanings. This began his 27-year-long imprisonment.

In 1961, the CIA assists in the assassination of the democratically elected congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, throwing the country into years of turmoil. Before his assassination the CIA sent one of its scientists, Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, to the Congo carrying “lethal biological material” intended for use in Lumumba’s assassination. This virus would have been able to produce a fatal disease indigenous to the Congo area of Africa and was transported in a diplomatic pouch.

In 1801, and again in 1815, the US aided Sweden in subjugating a series of coastal towns in North Africa, in the Barbary Wars. The stated reason was to crack down on pirates, but the wars destroyed the navies of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco, and secured European and US shipping routes for goods and slaves in North Africa. US Representatives stated: “When we can appear in the Ports of the various Powers, or on the Coast, of Barbary, with Ships of such force as to convince those nations that We are able to protect our trade, and to compel them if necessary to keep faith with Us, then, and not before, We may probably secure a large share of the Meditn trade, which would largely and speedily compensate the U. S. for the Cost of a maritime force amply sufficient to keep all those Pirates in Awe, and also make it their interest to keep faith.” Thomas Jefferson echoed and carried out the war, saying that war was essential to securing markets along the Barbary Coast.

#late stage capitalism #capitalism #socialism #anarchy #communism #twitter post #rip twitter #leftism #anti capitalism #economics #classism #current events #inequality #liberal #liberal hypocrisy #liberal feminism #tweet #liberalism #woke liberal madness #conservative #republican #democrat #conservatism #africa #unesco #migration #ethiopia #south africa

[taylorvaughnsaidso]

So interesting, as an American I just had this conversation not too long ago with a friend from the UK - we were talking about the latest season of You and their depiction of classism of the UK vs US. To put in plainly she explained this exactly, what James is saying.

Michael Gambon seems a little out of touch with that perception if you ask me.

^^^^

#james mcavoy #social issues #british arts #pop culture #gossip #celebrity gossip #the hollywood reporter #classism #equity #equity british trade union #film discussion #theater

[mynameinyamouth]

Plain and simple.

#anti capitalist #socialism #late stage capitalism #classism

[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

[stormysapphic]

saw a post that used the phrase "overqualified for a job" in regard to like a person with a phd in physics working at a fast food place..... and i'm like hmm i don't think that's the correct way to illustrate that concept. being overqualified would be someone with a phd in physics only getting unstimulating internships and low paying entry level jobs in their field. that same person could totally suck at their present job flipping burgers bc uhhh.... you're not suddenly (over)qualified for that just cuz you have a degree in smth completely different. maybe y'all should once again think about how you view certain jobs.

the existence of so called "unskilled labour" and our legitimate need for it is not the problem. the problem is employers underpaying staff, the exploitation of vulnerable workers such as disabled ppl, the elderly, and immigrants, mindnumbing "bullshit jobs" and higher ups getting paid six figures for doing nothing, ppl feeling alienated from their labour, and so much more.

imo by implying that jobs like food prep or sanitation or construction are somehow inherently "lesser" instead of just different from what a person w a physics degree might be actually interested in and passionate abt, you're contributing to so many harmful myths. such as that those jobs are "unskilled" or even unnecessary, that no one wants to do them let alone enjoys them, and that getting a degree is in everyone's best interest bc god forbid you end up as the "uneducated" fry cook you look down on.

#personal #classism #social justice #anticapitalism #anti capitalism #elitism #feminism #socialism #communism #anarchism #leftism #lgbt rights #queer rights #my beloveds <3

[selkiemaidenfae]

so today i had an experience in my gender/race class that i feel like encapsulates why i've had such a problem with internet social justice lately.

in class, we watched the say her name tedtalk. in it, kimberlé crenshaw discusses the prevalence of police brutality against black women, which usually goes overlooked and undiscussed. she explains that we can't see a problem if we can't name it.

in this case, black women face an intersection of racism and misogyny, but black men are usually the face of racism and white women are usually the face of sexism.

because of this, black women are rarely considered for the unique oppression they face being a part of both of those groups. that's why we know the names of many black men killed by police brutality, but not nearly as many women, even though they face similarly high rates of police violence.

but my professor had a problem with this. my rich, white, very progressive professor. can you guess what it is?

crenshaw said that it's important to "see" a problem for what it is.

and that could be misconstrued as ableist against blind people.

so my professor-- fully serious-- suggested that maybe crenshaw's words as a black woman should be taken with a grain of salt because of her ableist language.

see another example. to be trans-inclusive, many people who are raising awareness for women's health problems are referring to certain diseases and disorders as things that happen to "people with vulvas".

here's the problem. for women who have not gone to college and live in a conservative state with shit sex ed, there's a good chance they might not even know they have a vulva.

they've always just heard everything down there referred to as a vagina. or maybe not even that. maybe they've only heard it referred to as a pussy, a cunt, their "lady parts".

they have no idea that these PSAs are being directed towards them.

so now, in an effort to inclusive, you've confused and alienated a group of women who desperately need that information about their bodies.

and that's the issue to me. we no longer use language to inform or educate; we use it to sound progressive and make ourselves feel good. and the people we're trying to help are slipping through the cracks.

#long post #ashley's social work degree #politics #intersectionality #intersectional feminism #misogynoir #anti blackness #classism #literally if you disagree feel free to debate but i'm fired up

[theconcealedweapon]

Pretty much every criticism of socialism is "if you elect people who promise socialism and don't hold them accountable, you'll end up with the exact same problems we have with capitalism".

And no one who supports socialism is denying that.

#wealthy privilege #classism #capitalism #socialism

[intersectionalpraxis]

"unskilled labor is a classist myth the rich use to justify poverty wages"

[image description: Usagi from the anime Sailor Moon, in casual wear, lays down on her bed with her arms propped up beside her -atop her stomach is Luna, Usagi's feline friend, mentor, and companion -who has one paw on Usagi's chest and the other on her cheek as though to 'lecture her' with the caption above.]

#feminist #social justice #fuck capitalism #capitalism is evil #capitalism kills #abolish capitalism #anti capitalism #sailor moon #sailor moon memes #i dont remember where i got this meme from but its not mine #credit to the original meme creator #meme #classism #starve the rich #poverty

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

Happy birthday Big Bill Haywood!

#class war #bill haywood #class warfare #big bill haywood #classism #iww #wobblies #socialism #capitalism

[bananaproved]

“Jin Guangyao would rather bow than die, Nie Mingjue would rather die than bow” is such an interesting line because it really puts in perspective the fundamental divide between these two.

-> The first thing is that, it's not just that JGY would rather bow, it's that he cannot die and he cannot quit so he must bow, as many times as necessary to guarantee his own survival. He cannot die because the most important thing for him in his life is his mother and his life goal is to realize his mother's wishes. If he dies, he cannot accomplish what she wanted for him and by doing so he would betray all the effort she put in raising him in adversity and teaching him all of what she knew. Another important element is also that if he dies, there will be no one to remember him or his mother (tho for him it depends on the times of his life, but even when he is Sect Leader Jin, outside of himself, who would remember Meng Shi ?). "Bowing" is considered to be the less honorable way to get through difficult situations, when dying would be the honorable way, but in his case, for most of his life, he is already considered to be at the lowest level of honor possible just by being born, so he has no honor to protect with his death and everything to gain by doing anything he can to survive.

-> On the other hand, if we look at NMJ perspective, there are actually good reasons for him to consider that if he is in a situation where he has to choose, he cannot choose to bow and if it is the only two options he must choose to die. NMJ cannot bow because his main motivations and the most important things in his life are his sect and his family. If he bow and thus choose the "less honorable" option, he is putting shame not simply on himself but also on his entire sect and all of his ancestors. In his case and if he has no choice, dying is a better option because all of his actions since he became sect leader at something like 16 will reflect directly on the sect and an honorable death is better than a shameful survival. Obviously he would prefer to live as protecting his sect is so important to him, but faced with a choice he cannot destroy all of what his ancestors worked for by showing that the Nie sect accept to bow, to lie or to betray for their own interest, so he have to die.

It builds a really interesting opposition between them because JGY cannot afford to die because his name means nothing and NMJ cannot afford to bow because his name is known to everybody. The fact that they are really similar in their absolute dedication to their family make it more tragic that NMJ never was able to understand JGY's perspective on survival. Framing it as a choice is also interesting because if we look into it, it is perceveid by society as one, but based on who they are and what they must do, they have really little to say on the matter.

#jin guangyao #nie mingjue #mdzs #mdzs meta #tbh i think both perspectives are legit and justified by who they are #if anything it show they are living in a shitty system #where reputation classism and social rules will shape the entire lives of individuals