#equity not equality

[welcome-to-the-agender-agenda]

Stick with me because this might sound bigoted at first...

We should stop telling people to treat everyone the same.

Because of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, backgrounds, disabilities, sex and all sorts of other things we should not treat everyone the same.

It's actually harmful to tell people that because that way people (especially christian, white, cishet, allo men) won't understand and appreciate all the struggles that people go through day to day just by existing.

If we tell people to treat everyone the same, we're not telling them to help or to encourage or to recognise that things are difficult for different groups and that goes for everyone.

Most importantly, we're telling privileged people to treat everyone as if they also have those priveleges.

It's the wrong message to be giving out.

[aquamonstra]

You know that story about the orchestra that started doing blind auditions to reduce sexism in their hiring but realized they had to put down a rug bc the results were still being affected by the fact they could hear the women's heels as they walked onto the stage?

I think they should have just made all the men wear heels too instead.

[dillenial]

Not to be overdramatic but the ATO's disposable of the low to mid income tax offset is just yet another example of how capitalism will always fuck the worker who breaks their back and works for every dollar they have by taking what little they have to keep fat and make fatter the bourgeois kulak fucks whose only work is to sit and decide between decisions other people have already made.

[alwaysbewoke]

[myobsessionsspace]

[whenweallvote]

Happy heavenly birthday to bell hooks. 🕊️ Thank you for your fierce advocacy and revolutionary work that will continue to shape how we think about the world for generations to come.

The world is a much richer place having known you. 🤍

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

“Treat others how you want to be treated” is a cute sentiment but such awful real life advice that has gotten me into endless predicaments. Neurotypicals do not want to be treated how I want to be treated.

Turns out that among all eight billion of us, there are a few different sets of values and preferences and neurotypes. Turns out not everyone wants to be treated the same ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[perrysoup]

Am I a radical because I think people should be paid fairly? Am I a radical because I think Heathcare is a right ? Am I a radical because I think the unhoused are from a failure by the state to provide them housing and support?

Am I a radical because I think all people should be treated equally?

Am I a radical because I realize equality don't mean the same thing for everyone, it means giving people what they need to be on the same level?

Am I a radical because I think that food and drink are a right?

Am I a radical because I want peace?

Am I a radical because jobs should be what you love, not what you are forced to do?

Am I a radical because I think colonization is bad?

Am I a radical because I don't ignore the benefits I have had from being a White, Straight, Male?

Am I a radical because I don't ignore the benefit I have the totalitarian policies of the US in relation to the world?

Am I a radical for speaking up against the horrors of capitalism?

Am I a radical for thinking that a single country should not determine the worlds safety?

Am I a radical for think war is bad?

Am I a radical for thinking civilians shouldn't be killed?

If that's what defines a radical, then that's what I am. And I'm proud to be one.

[sher-ee]

Whatever you do don’t sit this election out.

Vote BLUE

[alwaysbewoke]

A new study by the education watchdog Available to All reveals that school attendance zones and selective admission policies in the U.S. often exclude students of color and low-income families from elite public schools, thereby reinstating levels of segregation reminiscent of 1968. The study criticizes the use of residential addresses for school assignments, which supports "educational redlining" that favors affluent families, leading to systemic inequalities in access to advanced educational programs. Available to All calls for legislative reforms to protect enrollment rights and recommends that school districts minimize the importance of geographical boundaries to combat segregation and improve school access for all. The resurgence of school segregation to levels seen in 1968 is a stark reminder of how deeply systemic inequality is entrenched in our education system. Policies that favor affluent families and perpetuate educational redlining deny many Black and low-income students the opportunity to access quality education.

but listen to the racists and coons, black people are just making shit up and "playing the victim/race card."

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[guilty-feminist]

[biseggsualitea]

So Australia just voted no to enshrining a voice for indigenous Australians into our constitution. This voice was to be an advisory body with no real legal power over policy. And yet, despite the history of absolute HORRID treatment of Aboriginal Australians (attempted genocide) and the MULTITUDE of issues they continue to face as a marginalised group in our society, WE STILL SAID NO.

I am sitting in my kitchen sobbing. I am grieving for indigenous Australians, who I am sure will suffer greatly as a result of this. I am grieving for the complete backwards step we have taken. I am grieving for the fact that we live in a world where people are so selfish and ignorant that they can't think of the needs of others for the sake of equity.

If we cannot look out for each other, especially when it comes at absolutely no cost to ourselves, what hope do we have?

[coulsonlives]

I think the difference confuses a lot of people, so these pictures are super helpful.