Yeah, because the second amendment is exactly what impoverished people need right now
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ZombieTheZombieCat
joined 2 years ago
It's not that deep. It's just misogyny.
"Privilege is when equality feels like oppression." When "straight white cis male" is the default, all resources are "male" resources. All history is "male" history. Not sure how that's so unfair.
There are men-only 12 step meetings. There are men-only homeless shelters (way more than there are for women or LGBTQ folks actually). Men-only recovery programs. Men-only church groups and support groups. A few years ago a domestic violence org in my hometown changed from being women-only to accepting all genders, including straight cis men, and it certainly can't be the only one in the US. And of course men had to create a male counterpart to International Women's Day. There's a million resources and groups for prostate cancer and testicular cancer (because I've literally heard men complain about the amount of recognition breast cancer gets - not that breast cancer only affects women...) Plus your "no nut/no shave November." And of course, any space, organization, or institution that is not gender specific to begin with generally becomes dominated by straight white cis men. Maybe you just aren't looking hard enough for these "male resources."
Isn't that what why we elect people? So they can do that for us
I know, I have no social media and just left reddit too. I hate it when I hear that not being on social media is a "red flag" in the dating scene. But I guess I wouldn't want to be with someone who cared so little about privacy anyway.
Just because it's expected at this point doesn't make it acceptable.
I didn't learn about it until my political sociology course in college.
On a side note, A Different Mirror: A History of Multiculturalism in America by Ronald Takaki is a really good book to read for more of these lesser known historical events that should really be known by everyone.
I love that he even has a nice collared shirt
"only 4"
Each one of those four is a human being. With a family, a life, a personality, hopes and dreams. And that humanity was taken away from four human beings and their families, why? For some fucking political points to underscore how "anti-worker" the conservative party is (with the racist dog whistle rhetoric being that they are also anti-immigration).
Whether it's one person, four people, twenty people, or someone who "just" suffered heat stroke, it doesn't change how utterly cruel this is. It doesn't change the fact that it's a violation of human rights, whether there's federal laws on the same subject or not. It doesn't change that conservatives are adding insult to injury with these fatal policies.
And yes, maybe there's state and federal laws that will override the lack of municipal laws. But what happens in real life is that some foreman somewhere denies workers water. The workers can't say or do anything maybe because they're not here legally. Maybe because they don't want to lose their jobs. Or maybe they just don't know their rights. Then, they die or are injured from the heat. Only then can they or their families pursue damages in court, which could be expensive and will probably take years.
That's the problem. The only recourse for workers or their families will come after the death/injury.
And they have to keep changing the rules at the last minute to do it.