Mastodawn

Something white folks like me from "middle class" backgrounds really need to fucking deal with is that privilege isn't just the advantages that put us a little ahead or give us a little more comfort or space or whatever.

Privilege is also having the real ugliness of the "American way of life" hidden from us.

There is no justice here. Our prisons are full of the suffering underclasses that are impoverished, criminalized, & enslaved. Unhoused people are treated like vermin to exterminate.

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UkeleleEric

@artemis It didn't start in America. It's just that late-stage capitalism there has come to its logical conclusion. As an example from my country, look up the folk song 'Poverty Knock', about working in the mills in the Industrial Revolution, or, further back, the history of the enclosures of common land under the 'Enclosure Acts'.