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The perils of commonplace passive constructions - people “losing” their jobs or homes, the gap between classes “growing”, wages “falling” - all render invisible the CHOICES a powerful few keep making to impoverish and imperil everyone else.
No one misplaces a house. Billionaire developers, bankers and corporate landlords extract payments by having made the most basic of needs - shelter - into a means to generate profits.
No one suddenly can’t find their job. Giant corporations just minted another taxpayer funded fortune in bailouts and are still laying people off, no matter their profits.
Referring to the devastation of Black and Brown communities hit first and worst by Covid through the flaccid vocabulary of “disparities” tells us that outcomes differ. But it’s silent about why.
And the right answer - that lawmakers and the billionaires who fund them are picking and choosing who will live and die - is not what comes top of mind.
Indeed, lawmakers reliably point finger at the people rendered vulnerable thanks to our color coded barriers to care, decent wages and paid leave. They want us pointing the finger in the wrong direction so we don’t join together across differences to demand care all of us need.
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