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ifeeltheblame: unapologeticexistence: zainazahira: universalequalityisinevitable: Peter Joseph on structural violence, from this video. Brilliant Spot on. Like Coretta Scott King said, I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence. [Gif description: A set of eight gifs of Peter Joseph speaking about structural/systemic violence, “If I put a gun to someone’s head, say, a 30-year-old healthy male, pull the trigger, and kill him – assuming an average life expectancy of 84, you can argue that possibly 54 years of life were stolen from that person in a direct act of violence. However, if a person is born into poverty in the midst of an abundant society where it is statistically proven that it would hurt no one to facilitate meeting the basic needs of that person, and yet they die at the age of 30 due to heart disease – which has been found to statistically relate to those who endure the stress and effects of low socioeconomic status – is that death, the removal of those 54 years, once again an act of violence? And the answer is, ‘Yes, it is.’ You see, our legal system has conditioned us to think that violence is a direct behavioral act. The truth is that violence is a process, not an act, and it can take many forms. You cannot separate any outcome from the system by which it is oriented.” End GD] -- source link
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