Deliberate Insanity

Collin Kennedy died in 2018, just two years after this video was taken. What would anonymity have achieved for him in those last two years? Avoiding punishment? His whole point was that these parking fees are already a punishment on the sick.

Is public protest dangerous? Sure. Is it more dangerous than merely existing as a sick or disabled person navigating a hostile healthcare system? I think that is for every individual experiencing it to decide for themselves.

Collin Kennedy, 50, lived with multiple myeloma — a type of blood cancer — for 19 years.

He invited media to watch him fill a parking meter with spray foam to raise awareness about the high costs of parking for cancer patients and other sick people getting treatment. Video of Kennedy vandalizing the meter was widely shared on social media. It led to a Canada-wide petition to end the practice of charging for parking near hospitals.

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Like I saw this and

1: wdym "American authors"?? As if authors from anywhere else in the world doesn't want to make money on their craft?

My two cents is the situation has nuance and most westerners do not consider that. I recently called a guilt tripper for bringing this situation into the attention of someone but eh. Let's try again.

it's different for people who are in global south. One, our economies are decimated and our money compared to dollar worths nothing bc of the westerner colonization and imperialism which every single westerner no matter their political stance or socio-economic class benefit from. This doesn't mean every westerner is guilty of the atrocities of their governments (tho lbr so few of you try to do anything abt it) but you do benefit from that colonization. Those two situations are not divorced from each other. Not to mention that sometimes the platforms to buy stuff are just blocked by regressive governments (which western govts are either responsible from or support). Which means we literally can't buy it even if we want to. You as a small business who sells DIGITAL products will not lose money from people who weren't able to buy your stuff to begin with.

I don't think you people understand what it means to have 300-500 dollars in a *month* and your rent also being that. Someone in that situation cannot pay for 15 dollars for a patreon sub. They will never have that 15 dollars.

So where does this leave us? Should we have only access to mainstream stuff for something that is out of our control and a system that directly benefits you westerners?

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