I wish that second comma was a colon.
At least an em dash!
Gonna be some parentheses for me, dawg
I highly doubt that she would have followed “it was stolen from you” with “by capitalists”.
My expectation is that’s exactly what was implied. Do you know something I don’t?
For millions of white families maybe
People who harp about the good ole days always hate when I point out they were only good because cishet white men could participate. 😂
Sure, but if we resolved these economic issues today and redirected wealth from the top to the bottom income brackets, even minorities could have a minimum standard quality of life like the rest of us.
Now even they don’t have it though
American wealth is built on imperialism and world economic domination. Whether that stolen wealth is evenly divided in your country changes nothing for the nations that your country imperializes and exploits. The world does not accept America’s imperialism and it is time that it ends.
Yeah… Sum zero economy and that bullshit. I love the smell of soviet propaganda in the morning.
The same people who built an entire system based on siphoning money out of us with economic rent now banging on about how we need to produce more of the children we can’t afford to raise anymore.
Was it ever realistic to be a lon-time thing though?
A world where we strive for never-ending growth of profits makes it unrealistic
This wasn’t stolen, it was a historical anomaly purchased with the profits of 20th century colonialism, war and psychotic idealism.
I get the point this is trying to make, but please, lets not reminisce about 50’s America with rose tinted glasses as if that’s a time we want to go back to… Other things that were normal were segregation, forced sterilisation of queer and disabled folks, general sexism and lack of opportunity for women, and so on and so on…
Instead we should be aiming for a world we haven’t had yet (in modernity) where what is good and “normal” applies to everyone…
It’s also important to note that while middle class white people might have had an existence like the image states, it was only possible by pushing the failures of capitalism onto minorities, mostly Black people.
Yeah, I’d actually written pretty much exactly that but then edited to be a bit more broad, but yeah - it was still capitalism, and capitalism always makes some people comfortable at the expense of others.
Rich people: Why are we discriminating? If we shit on white people too, we can be even richer.
The search for infinite growth and power will always end up in self cannibalisation, you’re only in the “in group” until you’re not anymore… ¯\(ツ)/¯
That’s not what’s happening here and it sounds like you need to take a step back and reread the image.
I’m fine where I am thanks. You not wanting to be confronted with the fact that the thing that was “stolen” from you was always coming at the expense of people more marginalised, doesn’t change that…
Pretending that all peoples who weren’t white were marginalized is a fallacy, but it seems the chip on your shoulder won’t allow you to accept a statement that does nothing to romanticize a period but rather calls into sharp relief the very real way a generation used capitalism as a weapon to foment their own success.
