https://unharnessed.substack.com/p/the-robots-and-cobots-are-already

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My opinion: The way to stop this is not by shaming someone, but by addressing and changing national policies on marriage and housing rights. Marriage should be a basic human right, not just for the wealthy. Housing is for everyone, not for exploitative capitalists.

#malaysia #pdrm #policing #education #shaming #moral #humanrights #marriage #housing #youth #reform #socialjustice #systemic #exploitation #rights #policy #change #governance #basicneeds #school #students #activism #inequality #justice #community

All right. I did it. I worked extra hard and put together all that we discussed into a final version of the essay.

It's called: "Pride & Prejudice: A Call to Dismantle Whiteness From Within." Another English allusion felt appropriate since the English were such consummate colonialists and so we'll pick on them a lot here.

I really liked doing this! It was a little like writing with all of you, @Tattie, @melanie, @spacelogic, @mllsc, @coppercrush, and @melindrea! 💙

I really hope it leads to actionable change for all of us, and that it results in a net increase in worldwide levels of anti-racism.

Check out the full essay here!

https://ellisarcwolf.com/#pride-prejudice

P.S. Guys? Guys! We built culture together today. 😊 😻

#AntiRacism #Whiteness #SocialJustice #Allyship #TCK #Culture #WritingCommunity #EllisArcwolf

Y'all have definitely inspired me to add to this essay. I have a lot of things to add, including what the proscription may be for TCK's like myself who have made their own culture and for those whose cultural information has been lost to history.

There's a lot of pain here that we're tapping into that I think is really showing me how hard this hits with a lot of you.

We, people who benefit from white privilege, need to make a better world for POC now. We, POC, are owed that. (See what I did there? ;) ) I could definitely name, like, five populations that should come ahead of any of mine, but we do that with you, not against you, not over you, and can't really even without you.

So we make it work. Somehow. Fuck purity tests. This is about humanity. And we fucking suck sometimes. Acting like we're all beautiful is clearly fucking us up. Learning to live with the discomfort of a shitty history is part of growing up, and everyone has to do that some time.

I assure you, every POC has contended with what it's like to have a shitty past. Some of us contend with a shitty present. We know it's possible to do. I believe in you, and if I can help, fuck yes, please. 💙

There are other bigotries, I know. We'll fight them all. We have the energy, the motivation, and the fucking done-with-this-shittedness to make it happen.

We're not gonna get 'em all, but the point can't be to get rid of evil. In a universe where you have to eat to live and babies can die of nothing at all? Nah. That's impossible. The point is to corral it like an angry moose and point it towards the dark metal box that it just keeps getting out of every so often. And to minimize that frequency as much as humanly possible.

#AntiRacism #SocialJustice #PurityTests #Humanity #TCK #CoalitionBuilding #MakeItWork

Has social work drifted too far from its roots in justice?

In my piece for An Injustice! magazine, I explore how our profession’s growing focus on individual treatment risks losing sight of its original mission: social justice and systems reform.

It’s a call to realign social work with its founding purpose: equity, dignity, and collective change.

🔗 Read the full article: https://aninjusticemag.com/have-we-drifted-too-far-e0ee916e2d89

#SocialWork #SocialJustice #Leadership #Equality #mutualaid

Welcome to The Macro Lens - a space for social workers and changemakers working toward systemic justice.

I created The Macro Lens to bridge the gap between direct practice and systems change, offering resources, reflection, and community for those who see social work as more than crisis response.

Here you’ll find practical tools, guides, and thought pieces to help turn compassion into policy and advocacy into impact.

🌐 Learn more: https://themacrolens.com

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I have a manifesto to make. I didn't intend to make it, but here we are. ✊🏼

As a "white" Hispanic person, my position in this conversation is...idiosyncratic.

One day, I'm a victim of racism. Then next, I'm directly benefiting from white privilege. It all enough to make you dizzy. It depends on the season—my skin color changes drastically with the sun. It depends on how tired or inebriated I am—the Spanish comes out more. It depends on which of my cultural behaviors are showing. And, of course, it depends on the mood of the white person in front of me.

Living on that ridiculous, flimsy line is why I need to talk about "whiteness," and why the "Allyship 101" take isn't enough.

The construct of "whiteness" is a tool of oppression. We know this. But it's not just a weapon aimed at POC. It's also a poison fed to white people. It has robbed them of their actual culture. It stole their German, Irish, Scottish, or Polish heritage and replaced it with an empty, meaningless abyss whose only defining feature is "not being one of them" and appropriating every new fad coming out of the third world country featured on ChildVision this fiscal quarter.

Why does this matter? Because without culture, you have no pride. And pride isn't just about "feeling good." It's about strength.

We, POC, are able to stand against systemic, violent, and often deadly oppression because we have a strength you may not see, and pride is the backbone of that strength.

💠 Chinese Americans know they built the railroads, and they hold that pride even as people shout at them for speaking their own language on their own property.
💠 African Americans know they are the backbone of American culture and vibrancy, and they hold that pride even as the nation punishes them for it.
💠 Hispanics know we created the foundations for international diplomacy, and we hold that pride even as we're told to farm berries and take out the trash.

We are able to live vibrant lives against this impossible burden because we have a shared pride in who we are.

☝🏼 A Quick Note: Yes, "American" is a culture, and a very complicated one involving rites of passage like homecoming and the prom, annual cultural festivals like the Super Bowl and the Academy Awards, cultural milestones like Black Friday and the Opening Day of Major League Baseball (marking the official end of winter in the U.S.), and even our very own cuisine, including delicacies like Chicken Fried Steak and the Chocolate Chip Cookie. We love guns, rock-n-roll, explosions, and we pride ourselves on our love of competition. We are raised to believe that we can do anything if we only set our minds to it (note: intersectionality may cause experiences to vary). And like any culture, it has its negatives: it's xenophobic and exceptionally cruel to people from out-groups. Many Americans seem to think rights are only theirs, and we behave that way on the world stage. We are an obnoxious people for many reasons. Many reasonable. Some less so, like, dude.... Let us smile from time to time. It feels nice. Go read Dostoevsky or something and be frowny over there.

#AntiRacism #Accountability #DeconstructWhiteness #ReclaimCulture #Whiteness #SocialJustice #Race #Discourse #Manifesto #CulturalErasure #CoConspirator #Solidarity #PrideAsStrength #Hispanic #Latine

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A point for Mike Davis' neo-catastrophist thesis in his essay 'cosmic dancers on history's stage', an oft-overlooked essay that has important consequences for historical #materialism in general & #ecoMarxism in particular.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/dinosaurs-thriving-extinction-asteroid-new-mexico

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If you have fair skin, and you see a person of color saying things about race that you don't agree with or, worse, find objectionable...

It's always worth finding out why. Why did they come to believe what they did? Why do you find yourself in disagreement? Why is it important enough to bring up now?

You may be surprised how the answer pans out. You may even learn that while you still disagree with the POC, you empathize with how one could reach that position way more. And you may even come to show us more compassion in the long-run, when you come to know us not just for what's beautiful about our differences, but for the ugliness we share.

And you realize your best strategy in this moment is silence and compassion, not correction.

Your ancestors stole the right to correct us from you. I don't make the rules. Be mad at them for it.

#AntiRacism #Racism #Empathy #POC #WhitePrivilege #Allyship #Race #ConversationsOnRace #SocialJustice #Understanding #BIPOC