Eh

white dudes talking about privilege by appropriating the ideas of woc makes me want to set fire to something, funnily enough

Little Fires Everywhere (2020) dir. Lynn Shelton, written by Celeste Ng, Liz Tigelaar, and Attica Locke

So for context, the “la riots” or more properly termed the La uprising was a result of the absolutely brutal and horrific beating and torture of Rodney King at the hands of LA PD and the subsequent acquittal of all the officers involved. So when you say “different decade, same shit” the “same shit” is the horrific systemic racism that leads to the death and torture of black people and the absolution of white racists and dismissal by white Americans which in turn spurns justified outrage.

It’s also important to note that the brunt of the damage occurred in Korea town because a few days after the brutality showed to Rodney King, a Korean shop owner shot a 14 year old black girl in the head because he falsely accused her of shop lifting. The shop owner was given a criminally light sentence which also sparked outrage.

The reason that there were black shop owners affected by these things is that in tandem with the shooting, gentrification saw Asian and Latino people overtaking black neighborhoods and displacing the local black communities in Los Angeles. So while these attacks were focused on members of the Korean community in Los Angeles, there were black shops that got caught in the crossfire.

It’s also important to know that almost all of the people injured and left dead were black people at the hands of a fiercely and swiftly militarized police force.

The aftermath of the LA uprising saw 2 of the officers brought up on federal charges of civil rights violations and found them guilty while the other 2 were again acquitted.

11,000 people, most of whom were black, were arrested and saw harsher punishment than the officers who beat Rodney king and the shop owner who fatally shot a 15 year old girl.

So the increasing burden of systemic racism, extreme poverty, displacement, and finally the public brutality shown to black people with absolutely no chance at justice reached a boiling point which resulted in the 1992 LA uprising.

So rather than hyper focusing on the unfortunate fact that some black business owners get caught in the cross fire as a way to pretend that you care about the material damages done to black people, how about we focus on the conditions that continue to result in these kinds of tragedies in the first place by addressing institutional white supremacy and its resulting cyclical poverty and oppression.

Who else in the USA would be interested in a spreadsheet organized by state & hospital that lists each hospital’s no-insurance, out-of-pocket costs for common procedures?

Because we could make that. We could literally crowdsource this info and put it together as a common resource.

Hospitals have tools online that list out those costs, but they are terrible. Absolutely fucking terrible and time-consuming to compare with other hospitals, which is absolutely on purpose. 

But! if people filled this out together, everybody doing a little bit (like when you yourself are looking something up), we could make a communal resource that helps people in the USA compare costs for procedures between hospitals.

Here’s an example I made comparing the same procedure at 2 different hospitals in Oregon:

in case that’s hard to see, here’s just the costs:

that’s terrible! 

imagine not knowing you had a choice that could save you $300!

we can make something better for each other, because our corrupt, for-profit capitalist healthcare system ain’t gonna do it for us!

If someone shuffles away when you stand beside them, don’t move closer to them again.

If someone shrugs your hand off their shoulder, don’t fucking put your hand back on.

Don’t be an asshole. If someone says they don’t like to be touched, I don’t care how much it “offends” you. Stop touching them.

1. hoping things will get worse for black and brown americans is racist. idk how else to explain to y’all that wishing ill on black and brown americans is still racism and still antiblack ‘even though’ they’re americans. as if black and brown americans have any fucking say in the government and as if they’re not directly and instantly harmed by the actions of their government while your white ass is safe and retweeting in bumfuck netherlands talking abt you’ve never been racist but you’re cool with americans of color dying bc somehow you’re the real victim of white supremacy in america.

2. your country has always had racists and fascists. always. your country has never not had fascists. the rise of fascism all over the world didn’t happen out of nowhere. trump didn’t get elected and one day millions of white europeans woke up and decided to be bigots after a whole lifetime of loving poc and muslims and jewish ppl. trump only emboldened the fascists your country’s always had. and you’re one of them.