Good example of how folks focus on houseless people taking up public property while ignoring how housed people do.
This house has been doing construction for months. The sidewalk (sometimes), public parking, and public parkway have been blocked. Now part of the cycle lane is as well.
As a progressive who lives in a trailer park, let me let the house/apartment-dwelling liberals know that reaching for classist insults like using "trailer park" as an adjective we're supposed just laugh at reveals a lot more about you than you think.
Especially now, trailer parks are full of poor people. You know, the class you're supposed to be concerned about? #USpol#Classism
Today I was in Woodland, CA, which is the county seat of Yolo County. Many UC Davis folks live there as the rents & home prices are cheaper. It has a teensy bit of influence from Davis regarding cycling, but outside of its pre-automobile downtown, it is a fairly typical rural industry sprawl town.
This was the lovely walk I got to take while waiting for a repair. Note the developer annexing the entire sidewalk on the left. Where do wheelchair users go? Note how WIDE that stroad is #CarCentrism
We as a society have allowed ourselves to become used to rich people and businesses annexing or abusing public property/services/goods.
WHY is this developer's construction crew allowed to annex most of the sidewalk here next to an incredibly dangerous stroad?
Everything about the infrastructure here says "Everything for cars. Nothing for people. Everything for the rich, nothing for the public." #CarCentrism#Ableism#Classism#Urbanism
It may be a little simplistic to say the poor have more compassion and honesty than the wealthy. But one things for sure, I trust the poor a whole lot more than I do the middle class and the wealthy. The things that class privileged people and whites of all classes say is straight cruelty. They are cruel people. They would be the ones to welcome Hitler had this been during his reign. They wouldn't even admit to being blinded by hate. #holocaust#hate#inequality#classism#racism#hitler#trump
People who earn high salaries and are very educated can't help but think themselves as superior. Class is one of the primary elements of education, its not just a side effect. No one wakes up one day and treats someone as below them. The vast majority of people who ask me personal questions you should never ask someone you don't know in a professional context are white or wealthy/educated. In other words they have power and know it. #racism#classism#education#control#professional#power
The problems with a lack of #socialhousing are pretty clear, but another aspect of concern is the contempt with which some social #landlords treat their tenants and the lack of interest the Housing Ombudsman has in sanctioning those landlords.
What social housing needs is both more building, but also a social shift away from contempt for those who inhabit these homes.
This is just another aspect of the continued divisive role of #classism in British #politics
For a while I've been wanting to do a video about "the 'isms of nudism," like #ableism , #classism , racism, etc, as frequently happens in regards to nudism resorts and other nudist spaces. But rather than just talk out of my ass for this one, I want to actually research and prepare some stats ahead of time, and try to make it into more of a planned-out "video essay" instead of just a vlog.
So I could really use help from anyone who wants to in finding out/researching stuff like:
how many nudist resorts are currently actively available for use
average price for nudist resort memberships
average distance from habitation, cost of renting a cabin, etc
difficulty in accessing nudist resorts--transportation, lack of disability access (like the swamp you have to hike through to get from the parking lot to the water at Rooster Rock clothing optional beach in Oregon 😡 )
cases of racism, homophobia, transphobia, anti-tattoo, anti-piercing, etc behavior at nudist resorts--news stories, or personal experiences
challenges of joining a nudist resort if you're a single male, or other cases of being denied entry over being gay, childless, etc
non-landed (no dedicated space) nudist gatherings, how many there are, how they find participants, how often and where they meet, cost of events, etc
any other considerations I'm not thinking of at the moment that prevent access to nudist spaces for most of us who aren't independently wealthy and/or retired so we can afford it, have a car in good working order and the money for transportation, food, membership and cabin rentals, and/or who don't fit the "family friendly" expectation of straight white cis that many nudist resorts expect, implicitly or explicitly
While I was raised nudist myself, I've rejected the label for years now and prefer to say I just support normalizing full body nudity (but not shaming those who prefer to stay clothed), for a lot of reasons that I detail in my video "why I stopped calling myself a nudist" https://www.toplesstopics.org/nomorenudism/
But I still have a ton of nudists/naturalists who follow me and post on my content, and others who are "interested in nudism but don't know how to start." The video essay wouldn't be anti-nudist exactly, but is intended to point out the many limitations to finding places to be nonsexually naked without getting in trouble or judged that those raised with privilege can be unaware of. I'm a big fan of watching #videoEssays and there are so many wonderful ones out there, but I haven't really tried something so in-depth before, and I could use the help making sure this one is well researched. Thank you in advance. :)
I see this instance has a nicelong character limit for posts.
I have a Ph.D. in Human Science (2016, Saybrook University), which is about the experience of being human in social contexts. It is the mother of the social sciences but is now, at least in the English speaking world, and at least as far as I can tell, a dead field.
In #kyriarchy, I mostly focus on #classism and #ageism, but since arriving in Pittsburgh, have been confronted with blatant #racism (and yes, many white people here do see it). But #SocialJustice has to be for everybody; to focus on any one identity, to the exclusion of others, is nothing more than to elevate that identity over that of the predominantly wealthy white males who are now in charge.
Human beings have #HumanRights. These rights are not constrained by their governments' failures to ratify certain human rights treaties.
#Borders exist to mark off territory controlled by elites whose competition accounts for most if not all wars and to deny human beings on the "wrong" side of an arbitrary line rights and privileges available on the "right" side. This cannot be justified ethically. I am hostile to #xenophobia
Finally, I am pessimistic about the future of humanity. #COVID19 and the #ClimateCrisis demonstrate our unfitness for survival.
'Women see that they report something & the firm ‘investigates’ but closes ranks & gets behind the more senior person … & often the woman will end up leaving the firm thinking, ‘I can’t deal with this any more’, or her life is made uncomfortable. It’s very rational for someone to think, ‘I’m not going to report something because that might happen to me’!
One way #classism shows up in discussions of UK #economic policy is the way that regulations that are intended to protect #workers are judged by (and criticised for) the 'burden' they put on #businesses.
However, seldom do we see the pressure to increase #profits & suppress wages described as burden being put onto workers.
All regulation is about trade-offs & balances but not when one side is favoured by an aspiration to relieve it of all 'burdens' while the other's burdens are dismissed
@StillIRise1963
Peer pressure + in-group formation 100%. Dissonance be damned.
Fear of being othered: for non-thin bodies, meet fear of being othered for anything from, for the progressive reluctant, nonnatural, for the libertarian reluctant, nonsmallbusiness, or for the rightwing reluctant, nonMAGA bodies
While we rightly fret over #AI images and fraudulent #Photography, it's worth remembering that the camera has never been the objective plain dealer we have been lead to believe.
"Slum photography was at the heart of progressive campaigns against urban poverty. And it was a weapon against poor people..."
Climate change is an immediate threat to the majority of the world's population.
We need a local, regional, state, national, and international "moon shot" type of concentration of effort using available resources while developing and advancing new science and technologies to counteract the damage humans have caused.
Without this type of all-out, universal cooperation, human civilization, and perhaps humanity itself, are in imminent danger of extinction.
Let's never forget or diminish the truth that so much of our #climate disaster is a result of #racism and #classism, everywhere on #Earth.
The most directly impacted people everywhere are non-white, and poor.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation strategies that focus on the most damaged and vulnerable #communities can have the most direct and immediate positive impact for us all.
Is this classism?
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