The Coloured Collective | -celebrating women of colour in a world of black and white- (via colouredcollective)
“These pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps perspectives are short-sighted products of the privileged”
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What Mitt Romney Doesn’t Get About Responsibility - Bloomberg
I love the idea that the 1% can be “growing rapidly”. And/or, that rising income inequality is “good news”.
The case of the growing one per cent Indians
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The ads targeted towards you when you google “food stamps” are ridiculous. I’ve received ads for cash advances and credit checks.
Yeah, take advantage of poor people and trick them into giving you the rest of the little funds available to them. That’s awesome.
A must-read in general. One fantastic response:I think that it’s important to consider the implications that all of this unpaid (and likely stemming from the upper-class) labor has on society as well, especially within the industries that largely require entire chunks of time and resources from those aspiring to join them. Particularly within the public sector, one glaring example of this is the field of legislative aide job opportunities that are often only handed out to those who have toiled away for months (and indeed sometimes years) on end as campaign volunteers.
This creates a setup where an entire profession (any job offering Congressional support) effectively shuts out the very large proportion of the college-aged population who do not have parents (or some other richer benefactor) that can afford to subsidize living costs for however long they need to gain the extensive and unpaid experience necessary to enter the good graces of a Congressman or Senator. The implications of this are far-reaching and structural; and reinforce the culture of privilege already rampant in Washington D.C. where not only do federal lawmakers themselves often lack valuable perspective on the issues plaguing lower- and middle class Americans that constitute the majority of the nation’s citizenry, but also with the advisors and assistants working for them, who by virtue of being able to land their jobs in the first place already were fortunate enough to have been born into the nation’s wealthy economic minority. This creates a cycle of dissonance between the real world economic reality that Americans face and what the legislative class in Washington understands the proper solutions are to those very problems.
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Lena Dunham’s ‘Girls’ Begins on HBO - NYTimes.com
The dynasties persist, redux.
