#like how he's tearing into the homeless poor disabled etc etc etc it's BAD

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All you need to know about the trial is that the GOP is a bunch of cowards and many of them are probably involved one way or another in trying to rig the election. It’s beyond disgusting.

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More RoSy shoots her mouth off for no reason.

Most of the time, the end game isn’t deciding whether something is ableist/classist/A Slur/etc or whether it’s Fine, Everything’s Fine, Nothing To See Here.

(For one thing: something “being a slur” isn’t automatically the same as “don’t use it under any circumstances ever” — generally people not in the group being referred to shouldn’t use the slur. But, sometimes reclaimed slurs are a thing, for people in the group, and all sorts of liberating and claiming power and so on can happen under the banner of a reclaimed slur.)

Most things in life don’t actually lend themselves to simple “do this, don’t do that” lists. It’s nice when they do.

More often though, you gotta pay attention and listen and be willing to be in dialog, in relationship.

There’s not a list of things you can personally avoid to get your Not A Racist certificate. It doesn’t work that way. You (hypothetical white person you) fight racism not to get your Not a Racist card, but because racism is bad and you want there to be less of it, and/or because you figure if you fight alongside poc on their issues and they fight alongside you on yours, both causes will be a lot more effective. That’s what antiracism is about. Not attempting to achieve some personal “not a racist” goal. There’s no ethical consumption under capitalism, and there’s no ethical anything under white supremacy, OK? It’s about collective liberation, not individual purity.

Ditto for ableism. The point of fighting ableism is to make the world better for disabled people, not so that abled people (heh, temporarily abled people) can sleep more easily at night! So, if something Is Ableist, ok so what? The point is to reduce the total amount of ableism in the world as much as possible. Sometimes that means ignoring the small stuff or the stuff that just isn’t going to change for now. Sometimes that means letting disabled people rant without interrupting them. Sometimes that means taking time to understand what even is a small vs big thing. Sometimes that means letting disabled people tell you want to do and how to act.

Is (I don’t even know what that is but I assume it’s a bougie thing) classist? Here’s a better question: am I personally aware of what sorts of things are going to cause someone who has a lower income or is from a less wealthy family feel out of place and not welcome? Can I do something to improve my awareness of that?

The end goal is to make the world less shitty for people who have less money and are from families with less money, and ultimately to grow a new world where class differences aren’t really a thing. Making a list of things that are Officially Classist and avoiding those things might not do that. Learning to be aware of what ways you’re not being as inclusive as you’d like, hypothetical bougie you, and making changes to be more inclusive, will. (Including letting friends know how much activities are going to cost up front, so they can politely decline if it’s not in their budget without having to admit to being poor.) Even if that sometimes looks kinda similar to the first thing.

Also: mutual aid. Also: fighting for a decent social services net. Also: not feeding into “welfare queen” type stereotypes. Getting more upset about corporations for freeloading than objectively trivial amounts of food stamp fraud. Also: fighting for higher minimum wage. Also: tipping appropriately. Also: considering whether something you’re unhappy over is worth being a Karen about, especially if the person who would most likely get disciplined is someone with less power than you. (As in: filing a complaint about a therapist who sexually harassed you or complaining about your medical bills until your insurance company caves, is an entirely different thing from making life hard for your delivery person because they were running late or forgot something.)

(I’m talking like I’m good at all this but I’m really not.)

Also: not taking out your frustrations at big impersonal corporations who have policies that seem deliberately designed to make you tear your hair out in rage, on the underpaid service sector employees that you’re actually interacting with.

Also: supporting tenants’ unions.

Also: supporting unions in general. Your fancy serving platter thing is extremely anti-classist if you show up to a picket line with it. But you know, coffee and donuts are probably appreciated too.

Or use if you use your fancy serving platter thing to feed the homeless in ways that offer respect and dignity in addition to sufficient actual food — not joking about that.

Or if you’re a college professor, because you’re not sure which of your students are having trouble covering food and which aren’t, so you’re just going to feed all of them. I had a professor who did that — show up every class with an array of fruits and nuts and other foods that just happened, without making a big deal about it, to be vegan and I assume kosher and halal because no preparation was invoked, and at least clear on whether people with allergies could eat them or not because there weren’t any hidden ingredients, just the foods as they were. He was the best.

Well, him and the one who made sure we never had to buy a textbook, even if that meant him photocopying all the relevant chapters himself. Solidarity in action.

My first thought for a “more reading” link was for someone who’s apparently got into trouble for sexual harassment, but I’m sure there’s other stuff out there. Feel free to either reblog with “living with poverty/not being a jerk to people living in poverty” blogs/articles, or make suggestions via ask or message. In the mean time, there’s always Not Always Right. (Content note: so many ads.)

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