Here’s the thing. If it’s a crime today, it was a crime every other day when it was mostly impacting the poor. This kind of rhetoric is really starting to bother me, because it highlights how middle class Americans have never bothered to understand how poverty happens. https://twitter.com/jysexton/status/1246489191577538566

I know a lot of us wanna pretend “it’s different” because this is a “crisis”. What if your every day was a crisis? What if basic resources being kept out of your reach was the normal state of affairs, and everybody kept telling you it was your fault for not working hard enough?

Modern western capitalism has always been based in extracting value from lower classes through exploitation. It’s just a matter who and how many and how often and how bad. It’s the difference between a controlled burn and a wildfire that’s getting out of control.

A controlled burn isn’t a crisis because they promise you it’s only gonna affect a certain area. It’s not gonna come to your house. And you trust them because the system is geared towards protecting you. Well that same fire is at your house and the firefighters are incompetent.

Some will say this analogy is flawed. Controlled burns are a positive activity right? They are meant to help keep things under control and lesson the spread of unintended fire. Until you take a second to think about what (who) is being kept under control by being forcibly burned.