#inequailty

[o-kurwa]

[o-kurwa]

When victimhood leads to genocide

[geekygothgirl]

Like, if you ever stop and think about it, people who claim that they want equality but then chastise groups fighting for it as "too angry" and tell them to "be calmer/nicer/gentler" are kind of the actual worst. Imagine you're watching a playground fight between A and B. A is a lot bigger than B, and they have friends backing them up, and B tries to fight back, but ends up on the ground with A's foot on their throat. And B swears at A while they're trying to get A's foot off their throat, and you say sternly "B! I was going to help you, but you were JUST TOO MEAN to A! Now CALM DOWN and THEN I'll come over and help you out!" Guess what? By making your offer of help to a suffering person contingent on their "niceness" to the person who is causing their suffering, YOU ARE JUST AS BAD AS A. You are a huge asshole and you should be ashamed of yourself. *The ability to remain "objective" or "play devil's advocate" about a struggle that is not yours is not a marker of superiority; it is a marker of lack of empathy.*

[alaidiem]

It's ok for overweight guys to show their huge tits in public whenever they feel like it, but a woman shows a hint of aureola or breast feeds and people have to start creating legislation? Wtf?

[natebear]

On in equality in Brazil: “Former trade unionist and social democrat Ignácio Lula da Silva inherited one of the most unequal nations in the world when he was elected in 2002; he instituted a variety of programs that succeeded in shrinking that gap considerably. As Newsweek noted in 2009, “Between 2003 and 2008, the top 10 percent of Brazilians got 11 percent richer, while the bottom tenth saw their earnings jump 72 percent.” Much of this is due to a straightforward program of downward redistribution called the Bolsa Família. The program uses general government revenue collected through progressive taxation to pay for cash subsidies to the poorest Brazilians, so long as they send their kids to school and go for regular checkups at free federal health clinics. The Lula government also increased pension payouts, as well as the minimum wage, by a whopping 50 percent.”

Excerpt From: Hayes, Christopher. “Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy.” Crown Publishers, 2012-06-12T04:00:00+00:00. This material may be protected by copyright.