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(DIR) Post #ASvfKFySoCaUBseNI8 by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-22T04:50:30Z
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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !I haven't made it to Black History yet. I'm still on white US history.Q: Enough about racism for a second. Take a break! I'm worried about gender issues in the US too. For example, why is the gender pay gap in the US so large? It's one of the worst in the OECD!A: You know why. Racism! In the US, the pay gap between white men and white women, is smaller than the pay gap between white women and Black and Latinx women.https://data.oecd.org/earnwage/gender-wage-gap.htm#BlackMastodon
(DIR) Post #ASvfKGVQpcxVq84hg8 by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-22T04:55:04Z
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And much of the "progress" on closing the gender pay gap of the past 50 years, has been closing the gap between college educated white and Asian women, and college educated white men.This is a good thing! But it's not the whole thing. On the US' current trajectory, Black women will not achieve pay equity until the year 2369. For Latinx women? The year 2451.https://www.aauw.org/resources/research/race-and-the-pay-gap/
(DIR) Post #ASvfKH2Or3KXUNV248 by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-22T04:57:04Z
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We can't achieve racial equity without achieving gender equity. Black misogynists are not enough.We can't achieve gender equity without achieving racial equity. Racist feminists are not enough.Only 26% of Black employees work in white collar jobs, and only 19% of Latinx folk. It's quite rare for a Black woman to be a white collar worker.https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/race-and-ethnicity/2018/home.htmSo when US politicians talk about reconnecting with "Blue collar workers," they really mean "White business owners in the trades"
(DIR) Post #ASvfKHcYgcFnIWPuQS by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-22T05:00:22Z
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Most of the real unions (trade unions), endorse left leaning politicians. I'm not sure why this is surprising for so many people. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. American Federation of Teachers. Plumbers and Pipefitters. National Nurses Union. Etc,Most of the police unions, endorse far-right politicians. Again, not sure why this is surprising either. 🤷🏿‍♂️"Blue collar" and "working class" are code words designed to evoke a particular demographic of *worker*, not *types of work*.
(DIR) Post #ASvfKIAae5TZ04L5TE by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-22T05:01:19Z
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I reject the "pink collar" designation entirely. Some people use that term to draw a distinction between the type of service work that Black and brown women often do, and the type of service work that white men usually do. There are ~500K plumbers, and ~5 million nurses. Both industries are ~10% Black, but ~90% of nurses are women, and ~96% of plumbers are men.There are about as many Black women nurses, as there are white men plumbers in the US. But no one talks about winning the nurse vote. 🤷🏿‍♂️
(DIR) Post #ASvfKIdeu0jCSDwImO by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-22T05:02:29Z
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a champion of white women's rights. But she knew so little about white US history, that she said Kaepernick's protest was "dumb and disrespectful." Then she made it worse in her apology by saying she was "barely aware of the incident or its purpose" and that she should have "declined to respond."A Supreme Court Justice of the United States. Unaware of how every Black person in the US experiences the police, and the most important civil rights protest of her generation.
(DIR) Post #ASvfKK29iPuwmUPNbM by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-22T05:04:47Z
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RBG couldn't see what Black women tried to tell her: that racist men don't care about your reproductive rights. Or parental leave. Or affordable childcare.Trying to address sexism without addressing racism, is doomed to failure, as it has failed throughout US history. Susan B Anthony fought for white women's right to vote, while fighting just as hard against all Black people's right to vote.🤡She started a pattern of self-defeating racist feminist voting that persists to this day. 🤷🏿‍♂️
(DIR) Post #ASvfKKTS4vkg99BB9E by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-22T05:07:22Z
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Students of US history understand what Lincoln knew: One reason you can't have slavery in some parts of the country and not in others, is because slaves run to the free parts.But many of those same students don't realize that you can't block women's reproductive rights in some parts of the country and let it be legal in others. People travel to California. This frustrates the racists.The racists are coming for women's rights everywhere. Nationwide. And they will use racism to accomplish it.
(DIR) Post #ASvfKL4JrrF5zUQcc4 by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-22T05:10:41Z
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Without understanding how race, gender, class, and the law intersect, we are severely limited in our ability to achieve gender equity. Bad actors that understand very well how these concepts intersect, will use that knowledge to win the long game.This is why racists are banning the teaching and study of this intersectionality.Prof. Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term intersectionality. Read her stuff. Arm yourself with the forbidden knowledge! 👍🏿https://youtu.be/XfBzTTFLNz4
(DIR) Post #ASwTT3GaQ7n35oVwki by inthehands@hachyderm.io
2023-02-22T05:11:25Z
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@mekkaokereke Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. The man knew whereof he spoke. But people shrug off a hole in the other side of the boat because they think •their• half won’t sink.
(DIR) Post #ASwTT3nCSrsUixlzaS by klausfiend@dcerberus.com
2023-02-22T05:31:58Z
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@inthehands @mekkaokereke I heard it once stated (I think by Michael Harriot) that "racism is authoritarianism that hasn't come for you yet" and I sit with that one regularly.
(DIR) Post #ASwTT4I2cCY2GcCceu by jeffjarvis@mastodon.social
2023-02-22T13:46:05Z
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@klausfiend @inthehands @mekkaokereke Isn't it also frequently the case that authoritarianism is racism that doesn't admit it?
(DIR) Post #ASwTT4nwha4JrZ86O8 by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-22T14:27:58Z
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@jeffjarvis @klausfiend @inthehands The saying I coined is "Racism is just fascism practiced on Black people first."This isn't a metaphor. It's literally what happened.The Nazi Nuremberg laws were based on US Jim Crow laws and Federal Indian laws. Hitler got the idea that it really would be possible to ethnically cleanse Germany, from how the US ethnically cleansed Native Americans.Hitler referred to Ukraine as "our frontier," and referred to Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians, as "our Indians"
(DIR) Post #ASwVTHW9dQdXCT28K8 by adamasnemesis@social.adamasnemesis.com
2023-02-22T16:06:17Z
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@mekkaokereke Eh, there's nothing wrong per se with being uneducated about something and knowing what you don't know; in that case declining to comment would be the correct move. But it is truly weird that over the course of 30 years on the Supreme Court she didn't acquire a familiarity with how black people experience policing; like, doesn't that sort of thing come up routinely in cases, with expert testimony etc.?
(DIR) Post #ASwVaL3asG2iCj2VcG by adamasnemesis@social.adamasnemesis.com
2023-02-22T16:08:19Z
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@mekkaokereke My favorite example: there are literally 30 times as many waiters in the United States as there are coal miners, yet when we hear "the working class" we've been trained to think of the latter, while the former are just invisible, even though they're far more representative of the actual working class today (as opposed to the working class of 100 years ago, though I wouldn't be at all surprised if waiters outnumbered coal miners even back then...).
(DIR) Post #ASwWLJ4g3xAXfLwUam by franktaber@mas.to
2023-02-22T16:16:00Z
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@adamasnemesis @mekkaokereke Your example is a great reminder of the amazing and important book Nickel and Dimed.
(DIR) Post #ASwYriMhleNRHLxJTM by UrbFuturistDem@towns.gay
2023-02-22T16:44:23Z
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@adamasnemesis @mekkaokereke 1910, thousands of workers:Mining: 1,050Wholesale and retail trade inc food service and drinking places: 3,370Domestic service: 2,150Personal service: 1,520Source: BLS
(DIR) Post #ASwZ1ZsOBTlbqYTkBc by johnwehrle@mastodon.social
2023-02-22T16:45:54Z
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@adamasnemesis @mekkaokereke wouldn't it be incredible if a potus candidate championed wait staff and nurses and janitors and house cleaners in particular?
(DIR) Post #ASwqMlRM5DXJ0uWR3Q by Chuck_ORourke@mastodon.social
2023-02-22T20:00:31Z
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@adamasnemesis @mekkaokereke @chucker What? No one thinks of coal miners even after f’n Tr***. The working class is construction workers, manual laborers, bus drivers, grocery store workers, waiters (I guess) but Christ have you ever seen the opening scene of Reservoir Dogs? They don’t talk about coal miners.
(DIR) Post #ASwsqyOmfTSTndqswi by carlrj@hachyderm.io
2023-02-22T20:28:25Z
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@adamasnemesis @mekkaokereke but, no, see, coal miner is an “honorable” profession and—Yeah, I got nothing, we’ve been trained to think factory worker or digging underground or such, and not service industry, when we hear “working class”.
(DIR) Post #ASx0PhH91TswVWmdDU by stevensanderson@mstdn.social
2023-02-22T21:53:22Z
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@adamasnemesis @mekkaokereke get and read if you have not already, The Working Class Majority by Prof Zweig won’t I was lucky enough to have while doing my economics undergrad at SBU #Economics #WorkingClass
(DIR) Post #ASxfEslQ47wd4auEfQ by VividConfusion@mastodon.world
2023-02-23T00:30:53Z
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@stevensanderson @adamasnemesis @mekkaokereke I argued this during the start of the Pandemic. Retail and service workers (R&SWs) were sacrificed while teachers and other fields were prioritized. Yet, R&SWs have exposure to the highest number of people w/least controls & almost no support or safety protections. Why? These are predominantly female jobs. Not only that, but they are older women, women of color, LGBTQIA+ marginalized people, and immigrants, perceived to be uneducated. 1/2
(DIR) Post #ASxfEtGcC8tkdLV9I8 by VividConfusion@mastodon.world
2023-02-23T00:35:35Z
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@stevensanderson @adamasnemesis @mekkaokereke 2/2The reality is that many of us in Gen X have been hit by compounding economic downturns & rapid job market changes. And older women still get hit with job losses worst & get paid less. So you have a group of the most vulnerable people, with the least protections, being forced to take the highest risks for the lowest pay.
(DIR) Post #ASxfEtpi5eyGOBvAzg by adamasnemesis@social.adamasnemesis.com
2023-02-23T05:31:03Z
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@VividConfusion All good points that are too often overlooked.
(DIR) Post #AT3cHpWtPfuSzraKCu by david_megginson@mstdn.ca
2023-02-23T23:11:44Z
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@mekkaokereke That's an important point. We've seen in #Canada, too, how you can't separate #sexism from #racism.For example, Nellie McClung — the best known of the Famous Five who successfully pushed for women's suffrage — was also a eugenicist.After she was elected to the Alberta legislature, she helped push through the Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act, which resulted in the forced sterilisation of more than 1,000 indigenous women.
(DIR) Post #AT3cHqC0wmnr3OpAIq by klausfiend@dcerberus.com
2023-02-24T04:40:07Z
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@david_megginson @mekkaokereke a lot of the early progressives were eugenicists: Tommy Douglas' PhD thesis is explicit about it, and Sanger was a eugenicist, too -- but this ugly fact is also central to many disingenuous arguments against socialized medicine, contraception, etc. which dishonestly recast those efforts as motivated _by_ eugenic ideals as opposed to the work of well-meaning people who nonetheless had some very f*cked up beliefs that yet were not unusual for the era they lived in
(DIR) Post #AT3cHqpiZAYv2XOsBk by david_megginson@mstdn.ca
2023-02-24T12:26:27Z
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@klausfiend @mekkaokereke Conservatives try to make a similar distinction between "well-meaning" and "the era they lived in" for their heroes like George Washington (enslaver) or Sir John A Macdonald (architect of Canada's Indigenous genocide).Whatever our politics, we tend to attribute intention to what we like in our historical heroes and excuse what we don't like as somehow beyond their control. They were earnest about all of it, and it all tied together in their world views.
(DIR) Post #AT3cHrLceY5CdUKLuy by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-24T12:42:51Z
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@david_megginson @klausfiend The Black Lives Matter protests were the largest civil rights protest in US history. Most of the protesters were white.♥️🙏🏿They did this at a time of crushing debt, a global pandemic, unaffordable healthcare, bleak job prospects, skyrocketing rent. They didn't punch down on Black folk. They lifted Black people up. And they will be forgotten.The American Anti-Slavery society had 250K members in 1838. No one remembers.They're already erasing the BLM protests too.
(DIR) Post #AT3cHubgXHiKkAris4 by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-02-24T12:49:34Z
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@david_megginson @klausfiend 200 years from now, someone will say, "all white people were super racist in America in the 2020s! That was just the time!" We know that's a lie now, but when all the BLM stuff is removed from history books, they won't know this in the future.Just like today, it's really difficult to find evidence that 200 years ago, a much greater percentage of white people in the 1800s were vehemently, vocally, (and often violently!) anti-racist and anti-slavery.
(DIR) Post #AT4Fe5tp7xgiLluy6C by snowyfox@deadinsi.de
2023-02-26T09:47:02Z
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