What's wild is once you actually start paying attention, you find out what we mean by "systemic".
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@12thRITS I remember when people on the internet started getting real comfortable talking shit about bay area salaries. I started asking people if they also wanted to pay $25 for a hamburger and they got real mad.
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@polotek I'm so old I remember people saying they support Cesar Chavez and the UFW up to a point but, "I don't want to pay three dollars for a tomato."
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@12thRITS get back in them fields. Just don't tell me about it!
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@polotek it's well documented I'm feminism, I mean, white feminism for the last forty or fifty years is three quarters "what to do when servants are no longer affordable for the white middle class".
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@polotek The Interstate Highway segregated many cities.
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@laguiri the way people shut down when you tell them that at one point Black women were *legally required* to go find a white family to work for.
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@stevewfolds and train tracks before that.
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Lauralee Dukeshirereplied to Marco Rogers last edited by
@polotek I was today years old when I learned this. Thank you.
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Marco Rogersreplied to Lauralee Dukeshire last edited by
@LauraleeDukeshire I'm not a history buff. I'm actually pretty bad at it. But once you understand the sheer extent to which we have been lied to, you have to start looking.
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Making it harder to sacrifice people, that's a beautiful metaphor. And when you think on it, is America really doing worse as they complain, if fewer people are being sacrificed? Many of those people are Americans, after all! The flame dies down, but why would we want it to burn?
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@violetmadder @5klp471 they are still fighting about that. They are itching to get at that prime bayside real estate. But they can't until they do right by the surrounding neighborhood.
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@cy I appreciate this message much more than the ones you started with. Thanks.