#systematic violence

[isaacsapphire]

The poisoned Skittle problem, from the perspective of a non poison Skittle

The metaphor of the bowl of Skittles, some percentage of which are poison, and how many of those Skittles you want to eat, has been used by feminists about men, and republicans about immigrants. I'm increasingly devoid of shits to give about what kind of vile things I'm going to be called, so what the heck, I'll use it too for this.

With class and housing in the US, there is a poisoned Skittle problem; the lower income you go, the higher the percentage of assaults George type people are in the mix. (Please note now that I am Not claiming that the elite are not prone to being assaults Georg, or that there's no assaults Georg in higher income brackets) For added fun, the poorer you are, the more you have to be in physical proximity to others who live in your area, while walking to the store or taking public transportation, increasing your vulnerability to being assaulted, etc. In the suburbs, a lot of the time, the guy who lives three houses down from yours and you have literally never seen each other, so it doesn't matter if he would immediately grab your crotch if he was in crotch-grabbing range, because the two of you have never been that close together. If you live in a more dense environment and travel by foot, your chances of being in crotch-grabbing range are much higher, so a crotch-grabber, etc. in your area is a more concerning problem for you.

Most people very reasonably prefer to live somewhere further away from assaults Georg. The thing is, other people also prefer to live further for assaults Georg, and if you were just living next to assaults Georg, you are a Skittle of indeterminate poison. So when a nice redlined Blue suburb with a great school district is considering if they're going to permit some affordable housing, they are going to look at the income bracket that will be living there and say, "There's too high a percentage of poison Skittles in that income bracket. We don't want to live in a community with assaults Georg, or invite assaults Georg Jr into our nice school, so we don't want affordable housing here."

So now you, as an innocent non poison Skittle are left trying to figure out how you are going to communicate your non poison status so you can get the heck away from the poison Skittles. The current way this information is conveyed is by convincing a higher paid job to hire you, making more money, and buying your way into a better neighborhood. This is a rather lossy way to sort, and shit like constantly disrupted sleep at the weekly hotel from all the shitty people who live there with you doesn't help with better job thing. There's plenty of non poisoned Skittles in that bowl, but how to extract them safely?

The obvious next question is why we as a society don't seem to have any solution to the problem of getting assaulted by assaults Georg other than to individually just try to scramble away from where such folks are statistically and to price the entire category of people who are statistically more likely to be assaults Georg out of certain areas. And now it's a criminal justice system problem and I'll leave that for another day, but overall, the criminal justice system seems a lot more interested in hassling people based on statistical similarities to assaults Georg than doing fuck all about stopping assaults Georg.

[lastcatghost]

Capitalism robs us all of our humanity and any real human experience. Not just the people who didn't live as long as they should've, but also from the amount of people who could do something amazing in art or science or any area of life, but instead had to work fields, factories, or lumpen street hustling just to make ends meet.

Shit if I could've followed my dreams and natural interests, I would've wanted to work at the jet propulsion lab like carl Sagan, but even with my ability to understand the science in anyway, I never had any chance to get the education needed to do that kind of work. And i know it's not only common for this shit to happen as children grow up, it's almost universal except with the wealthy

[genderkoolaid]

ive seen people make the connection between anti-transfemininity and homophobia & how a lot of homophobia is inherently anti-transfem. & while i disagree with the idea that homophobia is like, anti-transfemininity Lite, its um. interesting to me that the people who will say that gay men are attacked because of their proximity to transfeminity don't say the same about lesbophobia and anti-transmasculinity. because a lot of lesbophobia is inherently anti-transmasc; a lot of lesbophobic violence is done under the assumption that lesbians "want to be men" or "think they are men" (and some do). that's clearly anti-transmasc. it's clearly about punishing perceived transmasculinity, regardless of whether the victim identifies or would have identified as transmasc/a trans man. and yet i've never seen anyone make this connection or point out how so much lesbophobia involves the punishing of perceived transmasculinity. hmmm i wonder why. anyways.

[echidnana]

also the notes on the last post are so bad LMAO like fundamentally mouthwashing is about the systems in place that enable abuse in the workplace. like to say any of the men "did nothing wrong" is simply incorrect and ignores the point. every man on that ship was benefitting from the system that allowed anya to be abused. jimmy's actions, while obviously made of his own free will, were informed by the environment he was in and the fact that he FELT COMFORTABLE abusing anya. he had zero regret for assaulting her, only that there was evidence (her pregnancy). this is because he fundamentally did not see abusing her as being wrong. he only expresses guilt that he tried to crash the ship, hurting curly.

[calamitys-child]

Maybe this'll be a poem eventually maybe its just on the ceiling but. I'm once again struck by the idea that we are visible in the springtime, you will see us all the ever-lengthening day; we remember as the winter snaps shut round us, because every breath, every proof of life is crystalline and irrefutable in freezing air.

[theoppositeofprofound]

YOUTUBE/idk, whoever wants can make a spotify dupe, i'm not on there

Dungeon Meshi sparked in me a desire to build something terrible; a playlist consisting only of (thematically appropriate) songs with the word lion in the title. The goal was eight. I found thirty-two. They did not lie about those themes!

[kacievvbbbb]

I cannot describe how much I hate the "nobody hates women more than other women" group and response. God yall are so fucking annoying and my opinion of your intelligence immediately plummets

Because truly are you dumb? Or do you just not exist in the real world????

Like I truly fucking hate it because it is a narrative concocted to literally demean any women's movement because;" look there are women that disagree so the movement is obviously misguided and unserious"🙄

Like I'm not dismissing that internalized misogyny exists amd there are definitely women that want and love to uphold the patriarchy and are very vocal in their disbelief in women's right, Since women began fighting for their right there have always been women, and there probably always will be women, working in opposition of women's movements. but like point to any group in fucking history and see people that actively worked against their own best interest.

But also sometimes women disagree with each other and they might not even like each other. And it's not internalized misogyny and it's not being a "pick me" and it's not trying to tear other women down. It is simply two people who just happen to be women, not liking each other.

Men are actually violent with each other at truly astounding rates, most violent crimes are men against other men, Men actively work against the best interest of other men all the fucking time. Men can kill each other over beefs and nobody would even think to say "wow nobody hates men more than other men" or " men hating men what else is new" or "Men just hate other men it's in their nature". Nobody would dare suggest that all men must be a hive mind and their views on something must all be aligned before it can be taken seriously.

And that's because men can be people but women will always be women.

[lastcatghost]

Bad things do happen for a reason, most of the time the reason(s) are directly tied to capitalism.

And even when its a person doing bad things to others without needing to do so in order to survive, they'd still most likely not do the same shit if community intervention was realistic and humane, and if our collective resources were secure.

I don't believe any human is born inherently "evil" and that our external material conditions influence our internal circumstances that drive our behavior.

[iiusia]

kind of baffling that so many people who identify with christianity ("the world without God is inherently sinful" central) keep insisting that the world isn't that evil actually

[constantvariations]

Frothing at the mouth thinking about how Adam could've been our Scar (FMA) if ShawLuna weren't clowns

[wycross]

hey guys guess who just became a victim of police brutality <3 (gonna vent in the tags sorry)

[spitblaze]

I made this post before a bazillion years ago but it can't hurt to say it again

I do not believe thay systemic violence and systematic violence are not interchangeable terms or concepts. 'Genocide' is a very potent word for targeted violence, but it’s not a catch-all.

This isn't to say that victims of systemic violence aren't suffering 'enough' or whatever. Both cause real, tangible harm, it's just that one is an orchestrated attempt to eradicate certain groups of people, and the other is widespread (but generally uncoordinated) violence on certain groups due to failure of the state.

[redphienix]

Is there anything more absurd than "Person who makes it their youtube career to provide overviews and share thoughts on horror projects that are... ON YOUTUBE, and they censor every other word, say 'I won't show you this here', and generally ad-revenue PG-ify something that's ON YOUTUBE"

or am I just angry?

[uptownthots]

I was going write out this big long post about harm the patriarchy does to women vs the "harm" patriarchy does men but idk. I think the fact that there aren't large-scale male-led movements dedicated to fighting the patriarchy proves my point perfectly

[queen-mabs-revenge]

i always clown on myself by thinking that liberals have reached peak spectacle