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| Topic | Protestors block courthouse so landlords can't file evictions |
| legendary_zell 07/31/20 9:54:51 AM #165: | Platoe posted... How does someone arrive to this conclusion to begin with, do you think? It's one of the core ideologies of this country. People believe in hard work and "personal responsibility" to a magical and religious degree. Sometimes it is religious with the whole prosperity gospel and the legacy of the protestant work ethic. They believe so much in the system that may have produced successes for themselves or their family that they believe it has some magical ability to sort out the deserving from the non deserving. Wealth and high income is seen as good because it's assumed that they did something to earn it. Poverty is bad because it's assumed they did something to earn it. Class is seen as an indicator of personal moral fiber. That's why with knowing nothing about the people being evicted and knowing that the economy was shutdown due to a pandemic, costing these people their ability to pay rent, posters still talk about personal responsibility, get a job, government handouts etc like these are normal times. Because if bad things are happening to you, it must be your fault, your poor character is merely being revealed by you losing your home. --- I gotta be righteous, I gotta be me, I gotta be conscious, I gotta be free, I gotta be able, I gotta attack, I gotta be stable, I gotta be black. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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