Anti-homeless ordinances being used against student protests, you say?
Instruments of #compliancism being employed to suppress dissent, you say?
Whodda thunk?
#Classposture—unlike categorical class—is about relations to power as a matter of praxis, a matter of habit, a matter of habitus.
#Disaccommodation classposture is a lumpen relation: to camp in protest is to inhabit relations not by #perquisitive nor #conveyancée postures claimed by workerists, but as the unaccommodated, the nuisance.
Radio news just now, talking about "job growth" and listing medical as first in their list of where such number goes up is happening.
Now why might we be seeing more need for medical jobs in now our fifth year of pandemic?
Meanwhile, ex-administration official they bring in to talk to the issue, skips right past this; talks about growth in hospitality jobs "after" pandemic "lock-downs".
Economy's booming because of all the sickness those of oligarch #classposture get to harvest #RentBounty from!
Huzzah!
Thank Vibe'n that restaurants & entertainment industries also happen to be hiring, or else how would we distract from fact that over one in four new jobs in past year were in healthcare, and another estimated 50 thousand new jobs nationally, at minimum, were newly hired local police?
(~13% of local gov't jobs are police, local gov't jobs increased by 376K in past 12 months.)
Seeing a lot of "bad politics are due to covid brain damage" discourse today, including from those would want to believe ought know better.
Please stop.
The seeds for the orchard that is our current moment were planted well before even the SARS outbreak of 2002, like decades, if not centuries, before.
When our politics is fascists saying we have to support fascism to defeat the other fascists, please don't try to make sense of health supremacism by resorting to ableism.
@DavidM_yeg Ableism, as one kyriarchal intersection among many, was making our political nightmare bad well before more folk joined ranks of #disaccommodation#classposture.
Historically, when question "Why is our society such a nightmare?" is met with response "It's because of all the disabled people; it's because of all the damaged people…."
Yeah, don't need to follow those terrible beliefs, that devaluing of other people, to its Godwin's law conclusion.
In #RentierSociety, wherein long-term, cumulative consequences are routinely elided to preserve #perquisitive#classposture promises of redemption through choice, one needn't cite to brain damage to understand how we got here.
For those determined to live in 2019, the protections against acute death tolls in 2020 violated the social contract, the #FrosteanBargain, that those who made good choices got all the choices. The choices were taken away.
Poster suggest that some folk flourished during 2020—incl. someone close to them—while many others were traumatized. Implied is that those who want to still talk about covid don't recognize just how triggering events surrounding its emergence were.
As 2019 came to an end, there were two types of people: those accustomed to their life being shattered, and those for whom that would be a new experience. Pieces are still being picked up.
This is why even before 2020, the morality play of poverty-as-bad-choices served to underwrite #EgoValue for those of #perquisitive#classposture—the #FrosteanBargain promises an unshattered life for being good.
For those denied tools to do work of #mourning, those unprepared to do hard work of #grief, a default on said social contract is world ending.
So long as #Leftist sentiment fetishizes work and workers, as definitive of exploited virtue, those rendered unable to work, by structural harms, will continue to be tossed aside.
Defenestrative fascism is, by necessity, dependent on #EgoValue investment, of the self-identified worker, in #normalcy, without which #disaccommodation#classposture would be illegible—is the fear of becoming lumpen that assures its certain eventuality.