Sunday, June 21, 2020

Currently... (via FB friend)

"Consider that the wealthy capitalist class specifically seeks to teach white supremacy to poor whites, to redirect hostility away from themselves.
You're an American business owner: you illegally hire comparatively desperate migrant labor due to the higher profit margin, from sub-legal wages, benefits, and protections. You push local politics that identify the migrant worker as the national problem, due to "job theft," and "illegality," (particularly if and when they begin any kind of organization for leverage against you,) and the white segment of your workforce votes to deport the workers that US capital holders illegally employed in the first place, instead of punishing the illegal hiring by monied US hirers. At the same time, US capital further moves other labor and manufacturing operations overseas, again pushing politically for unrestricted freedom of US capital in foreign labor markets, as a path to Salvation, with no significant restriction on foreign working conditions or tax liability, assigning Ayn Rand in US schools. Again, "It's the foreigners taking the jobs," not the fault of US capital holders moving trillions of dollars to profit from these systems.
Meanwhile, you, as US capital, pay even your white workers minimum wage, which is only sustainable for them to even live to continue working for with welfare benefits like food stamps, which your workers spend at your same business at which they work, and which you teach them to be ashamed of taking.
(Yes, Walmart double- or triple-dips this way; the greater dollar volume of US investments do; not maximizing shareholder profit is white-collar-criminal, which is also a conveniently hand-tying moral excuse, to feign powerlessness to prevent it.)
Not as directly relevant at first glance, yet still actually entirely relevant, is the literal criminalization of brown skin, poverty, and organization against this generally described system, leading to incarceration in private prison enterprises, and slave wage prisoner labor under truly dangerous and dirty working conditions as in chicken processing plants, literally mangling limbs in chicken shit for less than $1 per hour, for favorable review for potential release from prison. The criminal labels associated with poverty and brownness become further grounds for political manipulation of sentiment: "I don't want to be like the welfare-queen brown criminals."
Yes, it runs so deeply through the entire organization of our own culture, of US culture, at its nexus of law, commerce, education, health care, politics, and even therefore our popular and high art, it almost feels conspiratorial to simply list every obvious data point we all have on the status quo at once, in the same paragraph. The reason anyone but a rich psychopath votes to support this system, I don't know what else to conclude, is tragic gullibility. I don't know how else to explain it, except to understand and remind myself, at the point of conclusion, that the same capital interests actively dismantle education and sell consumerist distraction from self-empowerment to keep this plantation running, and falsely challenge the ethics and basis for authority of the scientific consensus in general, and push religious "faith" (i.e. specifically against all rational evidence, as point of catechism I was taught ad nauseum) as a virtue whose absence is punishable by terroristic threat from an omnicapacitant proto-father autocrat god-king."

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