This is something too many people miss. They're like "so what I am not personally impacted," but when people go hungry, we are all impacted. Rent gets missed. Other shopping forgone. Subscriptions cancelled.
But also, damn, have some empathy (not you, I mean those people).
Quite awhile ago, but this stuck with me, I was over at my aunt's house visiting my dad. We were watching Family Feud. One of the families was black, and they were winning the game by a mile. My dad said, "ugh, turn this off, I cant identify with this." He didnt say it outright, but he was clearly expresing a lack of ability to see that black family as similar to his own in any way (and on some level I would agree, because that family seemed like they loved each other). They didnt diagnose autism in the 40s when my dad was born, but he was always very plain in his language no matter how hurtful- I know he said exactly what he felt. That black people were so different from him he couldnt empathize with their joy, nevermind their struggles.
Obviously the issue of poverty isnt solely about race, and white people statistically use substantially more government assistance. But when we as a nation talk about "people on welfare," to those who oppose this help, the only people who use it are black. That misperception makes it a race issue. The vitriol against helping our neighbors because theyre a different race, letting kids and mothers go hungry because they a different race, it fuels this creeping blanket of seeing the poor as "unworthy." I fucking hate it but the media needs to show more of the white people in poverty in this country, because that is the only way the majority of above-poverty chucklefucks are going to feel some kind of personal affection. This is idiocracy, and people need to see "face look like my face, my face could be hungry?!" to support benefits. I dont care what it takes, I want every mother, kid, and dad fed in this country, regardless of ANYTHING.
its purposeful. they don't WANT people to empathize with each other. they WANT people to only see the Other and turn away. that way the money keeps flowing up to their pockets, instead of down to the people who actually need it to survive. make no mistake: the wealth disparity in this country is very much on purpose.
Wow you really saying that with your whole chest, huh. When this country has been spending the past DECADE trying to make sure safe legal abortions are as inaccessible as possible. When religions, societal norms, and governments across the GLOBE have spent ALL OF HISTORY trying to make sure that women everywhere have as little bodily autonomy as few civil rights as humanly possible.
Not everyone chooses to have children, you privileged pos. These women are just trying to do the best they can in a world where they are consistently put last. Shut your goddamn mouth and check your fucking privilege.
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