The Great Hunger) was caused by British colonial policy. The rest of Europe also experienced the potato blight.
I wouldn't need an "orientation label" if bigotry and conversion therapy didn't exist. sorry that's "irritating" for you.
"heroin dealer" and "pedophile" don't mean what you think it means in this context. Speaking of sitting down and listening, I've likely done a lot more of that than someone who can afford to stay so naive and innocent as you have. You should probably learn what a dogwhistle is.
from experience
A lot of people will donate junk to struggling folks and expect gratitude. Maybe a dozen little incidents of being treated like a human trash can will cause someone to eventually snap and say something rude.
There are places where the food safety net is quite robust, and when people offer to buy someone food instead of just giving them the cash, and the person turns them down--they're accused of wanting drug money when they just need socks/menstrual supplies/presentable clothing, phone money, bus fare to look for work/laundry money/and oh, I don't know, save up to get somewhere to live.
yeah I'm not building bridges to people who want to genocide black and brown people and LGBTQ. If you think "hate" is a strong word, take it up with the legal term for the type of crime this person is advocating for
There's a lot of barbarism and bigotry towards people experiencing mental, spiritual, existential, social distress. That's bad and wrong.
"Treating" these kinds of issues in ways that causes more problems for people, using softer methods of suppression and control under the guise of "compassion" is also bad and wrong. It's just a different shape of stigma.
We can acknowledge that the struggle and suffering is real and also acknowledge that the system is broken. We can acknowledge that the system is broken and also acknowledge that other people are living under even worse systems.
It's a tangled and complicated issue, but we have to be able to sit with the discomfort of admitting that humanity as a whole doesn't have all the answers yet. We keep resisting the bad and wrong, and keep trying to find better ways forward. We don't shy away from pointing out the fuck ups even where the intentions are "well-meaning" but the impact is clearly flawed.
Put humanity first. Listen to people. Validate their pain. Honor their personhood. Avoid suppressing inconvenient realities. When in doubt: "First, do no harm". Resist settling for easy and incomplete answers. Believe in a better way forward that has yet to be discovered or built.
If you keep clicking on exclusively (non conservative) BIPOC content on youtube, the algorithm will eventually do a pretty good job of adjusting itself. I personally experienced a snowball--the more you do it the easier it will become and the better you will get at it.
Since you mentioned a cosmetics channel - Nyma Tang, Arshia Morjani, MariaaGloriaa, Haley Kim
Cooking - Tish Wonders
movie reviews - Kennie J.D.
Booktube - withCindy
art and media - CJ the X
Pop culture drama - D'Angelo Wallace
Science/Academia - Dr. Fatima
Queer culture and Kink - Kat Blaque
Politics - "Cornbreadtube", Humanist Report
Hope that's a good spread to start.
amen and receipts for anyone who needs to educate themselves:
You might consider my use of low skills pejorative but it is what it is. Would you prefer the other industry alternatives such as low skilled or unskilled?
"undervalued labor"
Yes and: when it comes to social issues and humanities It's black and indigenous folks lifting most of the weight, and I'm so tired of watching white supremacy co-opt and destroy their contributions to our language. I'm so sick of mediocre white writers getting credit for lukewarm cultural commentary that someone else did a better job on years before them.
Please, if your going with Cardi B it's gotta be Washpoppin'!
Thanks babe, but I'm familiar with racial gaslighting.
aaand there's the schizophrenia insinuation in the top comment. Fucking hell.
This is the kind of thing we need Soteria Houses for. They are rare these days.
The system we have is not designed to help people with these kinds of problems. On the whole they don't prioritize making people feel safe, they are careless with language and attitudes that abjectify victims of violence, they don't pay attention when mental healthcare environments and procedures trigger people with PTSD or autism or other sensitivities.
The more money someone has, the more likely they'll get lucky with the mental healthcare system, but everyone rolls a pair of dangerous dice when dealing with "professional help", and no level of privilege can fully mitigate that.
More importantly, their family and friends are having a dogshit reaction to this situation. When it comes to community, it seems most humans in this modern age are just socially illiterate primitives.
I don't believe this person is "crazy". They are having a perfectly understandable bad reaction rooted in a devastating past experience. hashtagEndTheStigma has done wonders with legitimizing institutions and dehumanizing people.
Apparently South Dakota has been busy passing laws to protect banks from having to disclose the names of their clients, both from public requests and requests made by any court in the world. But thanks to a whistle-blower who was later killed, a collaboration of worldwide journalists was able to uncover a handful of clients using South Dakotas shady trust banks.
Amongst these were a number of prominent Colombian families who needed our states help to launder their drug money... cartel drug money.
But the big question is: Did Kristi know about these?
Not only did she know, she helped craft and pass key legislation which created them. The lawyers who created these banks built them on legal exemptions and absurd extensions of privacy law. It was these lawyers, the congressional sponsors of these bills, and Kristi Noem as governor who created a permanent safe haven for money from drug cartels.
After this news was exposed, South Dakota legislators had an impromptu meeting to discuss amongst themselves if having money from drug cartels was a problem. They decided it wasn't.
So how did Noem respond when asked to attend a meeting about cartel drug money being laundered in her state??? She declined due to undisclosed prior engagements.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SouthDakota/comments/1cxlqd5/noem_is_not_against_cartels/
Charles Abourezk who has served as a judge for Native American tribes in the state says he has not encountered cartel activity in the cases he's covered. Tribal courts hear civil and criminal misdemeanor cases that occur in Indian Country.
"I honestly don't know of any," Abourezk said. "I have never run across any allegations of cartel involvement, although there is normal drug use and sales you see in the rest of South Dakota."
I say I couldn't ever find a therapist who wasn't located in a rich neighborhood, and you latch on to the word "commute" and talk about some people are so financially underprivileged they can't even afford to live near public transportation, including some therapists,--at least my no car high rent lifestyle means I can physically reach locations outside of walking distance.
Cool, you got me, I'm rich enough to live in a neighborhood with buses.
This means, that however few not financially highly priveleged therapists there are, the financially unprivileged are even less likely to encounter them.
Are they too poor to exist on google maps or therapy databases? These therapists are invisible to me because they don't exist near public transportation?
These offices in low cost areas -- do people not live there? Where in the developed Anglosphere is there an urban center where the bus lines stop before they reach these low rent commercial zones located more than 2-3 miles away from any residential areas?
I don't know what this reply means. We're talking about how most therapists are financially privileged, and you are talking about how there are therapists who are so much more financially underprivileged than me, they can't even afford to practice where I live? This is news to me, that the rural poor or suburban ghettos have therapists in their area because it's too expensive to be near people who rent and live next to bus lines.
it's a POLL, it's a representative sample of the political weather, not the socioeconomic conditions of America,--the methodology isn't designed to accurately assess the topic at hand--this is like one of three types information that polls do not represent accurately.
The quality, strength, and type of data isn't determined by the "reputation" of the people involved, it's determined by the methodology.
and how many of those multiple sources under your belt included an economic analysis?
I've never not had to commute to the most bougie part of my metro area to see a therapist
I'm sorry that happened to you! I also have experience with "nice white people" suddenly making accusations of violent crimes seemingly out of nowhere, with no proof, and doubling down on threats even after they admit they know I didn't actually do anything.
I'm glad you shared. It makes me feel less crazy, it's so unhinged sometimes I start to doubt reality.
When Did Y’all Realize that “Nice White People” Are Still Racist?
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