Halloween Is Upon Us

Or maybe he’s just ordering a decaf.

Maybe she’s ordering sugar free because she’s diabetic, and you’re about to put her six feet under.

Or maybe she’s just ordering sugar free,

Maybe they’re ordering non-dairy because they’re intolerant, and you’re about to ruin their day. Maybe they’re allergic, and you’re about to sponsor an all black event in an open field.

Or maybe they’re just ordering non-dairy.

Maybe they ordered gluten free because they can’t process it, and you’re about to destroy their digestive tract.

Or maybe they’re just ordering gluten free.

Maybe they’re ordering this way just because they don’t want the food, for whatever reason.

she doesn’t need to be dieting

Ugh, non dairy milk is so hard to steam, and drinking soy is a fad anyway

Life is short, eat the damn cheese bitch, it won’t kill you

I’d have to go open another bag of the gluten-free, and I don’t wanna walk all the way to the back room to go get it

At least once, I caught it maybe 3 seconds from disaster- someone with a life-threatening dairy allergy had ordered a soy latte. She told me at the register that it was a deadly allergy. I even wrote on the cup “ALLERGY- NO DAIRY”.

I caught the barista in question rolling her eyes and saying under her breath, “skinny bitches and their fake allergies, trying to get shit for free” (this particular coffee shop had a policy where a dairy allergy meant you didn’t pay the extra fee for non-dairy milk).

I saw the barista rinsing the dairy pitcher, put 2+2 together, and yelled out to the customer to stop her. She hadn’t started drinking yet, but she did lick the drips on the lid- she still needed her Epi-Pen and to go to the hospital.

Suffice to say that barista was fired on the spot… but there are many more people like that. Far too many.

Make the food/drinks people order, the way they fucking order them.

Even if she had just been trying to save the 50 cents…. so what?

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(Don't forget that BIPOC communities are disproportionately effected by climate change. And if those 26 richest people in the world, only 2 aren't white. )

Indigenous people continuously have their treaties broken to have oil spilling pipelines run through their water sources.

And Black people are disproportionately living in poor communities due to redlining, and pollution producing factories and dumps are disproportionately placed in poor communities, causing issues like the shit Flint Michigan is facing.

BIPOC communities are disproportionately effected by climate change.

Here's an article from the American Lung Association that proves it.

Just because I'm effected by climate change (my migraines used to be at the point where 9d celebrate 3 months without a migraine, now they're nearly every week) doesn't mean my experiences are comparible to the Black communities like Flint that have gone years without clean drinking water.

Sure, we're all effected, but you've gotta point out who has it worse. Black people have been telling us for DECADES about what damage capitalism is causing, but no one cared until it effected white people.

The only reason pollution and capitalism has gone on this long is because no one cared about BIPOC people.

Just because white people are also effected doesn't mean I can't point out this is only a problem because no one cared and BIPOC people.

That's some of the most "All Lives Matter" shit I've ever seen.

If I'm on a hike, and my friends falls, and I'm like, "Ow, you broke your leg. That must hurt like a bitch." I don't want to hear some asshole behind us like "Well, we're all sore from walking."

Because, yeah. We're all sore from walking, and if you want to bitch about how much your legs hurt LATER, I'm sure everyone will understand, because you're allowed to feel your pain.

Just don't interrupt me trying to show my friend empathy to express it.

I got a whole fucking month to talk about how I, a disabled person, am victimized by capitalism. I actually talk about it a lot. I also talk about how I'm victimized by capitalism as an AFAB person a lot. I'm just trying to have one goddamn post where I'm like "Yeah, but Black people experience it so much worse" because this is first and foremost a Black Lives Matter blog.

Listen. If you want to bitch about how you twisted your ankle on the hike, go ahead. No one will disagree that it fucking sucks.

But don't interrupt me expressing concern over a DIFFERENT injured person.

Me saying "BIPOC people have it worse" Doesn't mean the experience of everyone else doesn't suck. It just means that we need to address the fact that capitalism is first and foremost, a product of white supremacy, and anyone that isn't white is going to experience the brunt of that impact.