bankuei:roqayya:Twitter responds to EBT shutdown with unhinged classism and racism; the privileged t

bankuei:roqayya:Twitter responds to EBT shutdown with unhinged classism and racism; the privileged take to the #EBT hashtag and berate the poor for being, well, poor.From demands that those on food stamps “sell their iPhones for food” to questions regarding “how many babies” women on EBT have “so they can get EBT benefits” — the hashtag is filled with grotesque jabs at poor minority groups (specifically Black people)So.  I mentioned this on Twitter, but let’s break down the logic:If the real issue was money, these folks would be more upset about corporate subsidies, which give tax breaks to corporations who are already making lots of money, underpaying our workers HERE, and funneling that profit out of the US.  Or they’d be upset about these wars we are in that we don’t need to be.  Or the Joint Strike Fighter which is costing trillions and doesn’t fly.So it’s not about the money.  It’s also not about people “cheating” the system because all of those cases involve people cheating the system as well.So let’s ask, “In what situations do you believe someone should starve?  What have they done so terrible that starvation is a just response?”“Do you believe the majority of people receiving government funds for food or direct food assistance have done that?”See, this is where white delusions become everyone’s problem - the first delusion being that food assistance is primarily used by POC, but the bigger delusion - that POC are so lazy they don’t deserve it.   Millions of people you don’t know, you’ve already decided deserve to starve, because of a delusion you’ve accepted in white supremacy.“People are stealing from us”.  Let’s break that down.  This is the same mentality behind when POC get into schools or get jobs.  The assumption is that white people should get everything, and anyone else getting ANYTHING is “stealing”.   Everything for whites, nothing for anyone else.  Is this a reasonable attitude to have?  Manifest Destiny?This is why I say we’re still looking at a genocidal mentality. They’re not just willing to see us all die for their delusions, they’re willing to take out their own, and even cut off things they need for themselves to kill us too.It’s more important that some white person, some rich white person, own something rather than a POC get any crumb, even if it means the poor whites might survive too. -- source link
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