This is a white-collar quarantine.’ How the pandemic is magnifying America’s class divide.

[EndDomination]

Ok...so what’s supposed to be the answer here? There will always be white collar/office work and blue collar field work - are office workers supposed to feel bad their job translates to a WFH environment? Are rich people who had multiple homes before this supposed to all of suddenly feel bad because they have choices?

pay these workers, ensure their is a net for them, and commend them for keeping the foundation alive, anything else is just looking for something to complain about

Paying them a lot more is the first response - allowing a universal healthcare system that doesn't discriminate by job as our current system does - shorten the workweek and ensure that we don't artificially shrink the number of positions.

I could you through an entire synopsis of the issue: and why the class divide is making this a bigger problem (systemic racism and classism in education limit the number of healthcare workers we have and where they live; privatization has limited the number of companies who produce the necessary materials, etc.)

But a lot of Sanders and Warren's policies - shyt FDR's on up, would have made us far more ready than we are now.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

@No1 I didn't know how bad it was until I saw this yesterday.



Here's some food for thought theres people out there with $4.00 in their bank account. People lines for over a mile to get groceries from a food bank.

Paying them a lot more is the first response - allowing a universal healthcare system that doesn't discriminate by job as our current system does - shorten the workweek and ensure that we don't artificially shrink the number of positions.

I could you through an entire synopsis of the issue: and why the class divide is making this a bigger problem (systemic racism and classism in education limit the number of healthcare workers we have and where they live; privatization has limited the number of companies who produce the necessary materials, etc.)

But a lot of Sanders and Warren's policies - shyt FDR's on up, would have made us far more ready than we are now.

There are a lot of people who aren't going to listen no matter what you say because the manner in which they attained their own advantageous position in life trump's any other factor. I've seen it so clearly in this forum because we debate such a range of issues, and the same people are caping for the privileged position in one thread after another, even when the issues aren't even related. It's not the reality of the situation or the ethics of it that are primarily at stake, the underlying root is, "I like where I am and I know how I got here, anything that interferes with that is an automatic dealbreaker no matter what the consequences are for everyone else."

 

[Shogun]

There are a lot of people who aren't going to listen no matter what you say because the manner in which they attained their own advantageous position in life trump's any other factor. I've seen it so clearly in this forum because we debate such a range of issues, and the same people are caping for the privileged position in one thread after another, even when the issues aren't even related. It's not the reality of the situation or the ethics of it that are primarily at stake, the underlying root is, "I like where I am and I know how I got here, anything that interferes with that is an automatic dealbreaker no matter what the consequences are for everyone else."

That's a convenient narrative to explain away how anyone could disagree with you....

 

[ogc163]

The class privilege on display on here by some Black middle class liberals is hilarious. Further proof that the Black middle class is just not dynamic or multilayered enough in their internal narrative to ever move the needle for the majority of the community. As evidenced by their annoyance to even being reminded of their class privilege.Dude in my avi got it so right several decades ago.

 

[ogc163]

Fam - please stop @me and quoting me. I’ve made it readily apparent that I find your attempts at goading me annoying.

I have been in Patriots threads with Listen for years and we haven’t had a single disrespectful interaction. I can assure you I ain’t in the mood for your poor man’s @88m3 routine today.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

That's a convenient narrative to explain away how anyone could disagree with you....

What did you hope anyone would get out of that sentence? There are certain posters here (like the one who dapped you) who defend the privileged position over and over and have admitted where they lie on the scale, is it invalid to note their repeated reluctance to enter a critique of societal disparity aligns with their relative position vis-a-vis their fellows?

I mean just the other day we had a poster explicitly saying that Black folk shouldn't show racial unity and that as a well-off Black person he felt he had values far more in common with his "white peers" than with Black people in the "hood". I was thinking of at least three posters in particular when I made that statement. I honestly don't know anything about your life except you're skepticism of socialism, so I don't know if you fall in that category too. Is this a hit dog moment or no?

The class privilege on display on here by some Black middle class liberals is hilarious. Further proof that the Black middle class is just not dynamic or multilayered enough in their internal narrative to ever move the needle for the majority of the community. As evidenced by their annoyance to even being reminded of their class privilege.Dude in my avi got it so right several decades ago.

It's a big deal because most models and examples of social action require at least some of those middle-class liberals to be a part of the movement due to their social and intellectual capital. I can list movement leaders from across history that broke ranks with their social peers in order to fight for change alongside the oppressed majority. But this particular American mythology we caught up in right now is a powerful one, that's a certainty.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

The problem is we as a society tie wealth to everything. Freedom, happiness, relationships, health. Everything

IT also plays on 2 human traits. Greed and Fear.

 

[5n0man]

and the most important thing that's also exposed is society does not and has never cared about those inequalities.....

We live in a country that feels threatened at the idea of other people making more money because it makes them feel like the money they make is inadequate. We'd rather fight against higher wages for lower classes than to fight for higher wages for ourselves.

 

[FlimFlam]

Hmm....

Exposing? Not really....this is and has been a celebrated standard of existence for centuries at this point...or to be more contemporary, since the post new deal ww2 modern america that were living in

If the imagery and concept of despair can be mainly associated with black people and none whites, then pop culture will sum it up as "these nikkas need to better themselves "...black people will then repeat these positions, then business as usual will continue

If the imagery and concept of despair can be mainly associated with black people and none whites, then pop culture will sum it up as "these nikkas need to better themselves "...black people will then repeat these positions, then business as usual will continue

This shyt already taking shape in national and freelance social outlets

Its disgusting but its American culture.

For the history buffs; the post slavery reconstruction jim crow terrorism era was being summarized live in action in the same manner. "Its some good even succesful black people out there but the rest of these nikkas jus need to better themselves" ...The primary reason that didnt persist is because WEB Dubiois was accepted as an official national authority on black affairs and history, and his account of the era differed greatly from that....obviously

Pardon the tangent, but i say that to say this aint new...it is what its been....be considerate of how you speak and what you repeat and spread