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If you follow me and you were pissed about playgrounds and you happen to be white (like me) and you& #39;re financially secure (like me), I& #39;m going to say this at the risk of repeating something you& #39;ve heard today already:
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#onted
#COVID19ON
#OntarioisDying
If you follow me and you were pissed about playgrounds and you happen to be white (like me) and you& #39;re financially secure (like me), I& #39;m going to say this at the risk of repeating something you& #39;ve heard today already:
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The playgrounds are open because a giant wave of well-off white people (including many a PC voter) lost their collective shit yesterday. Ok, good. The shit should have been lost and it was and now the playgrounds are open.
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But where has that same energy been for the last fucking year!?!?!?!?
Or three years, for that matter!?!?
This Tammany Hall wannabe and his party of political rejects - that effectively won by default - have been pissing all over Ontario& #39;s rug since June 2018, ffs.
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Or three years, for that matter!?!?
This Tammany Hall wannabe and his party of political rejects - that effectively won by default - have been pissing all over Ontario& #39;s rug since June 2018, ffs.
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I mean, this schmuck cut a billion dollars...a BILLION FUCKING DOLLARS!!!!...from public health, just 6 mths before the pandemic blew up, despite EVERYONE hating this move (even most of his own base).
And "comfortable" white people weren& #39;t saying shit, for the most part.
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And "comfortable" white people weren& #39;t saying shit, for the most part.
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But then the pandemic hit. And now those 
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✂" title="Schere" aria-label="Emoji: Schere"> are hurting *you*, ya? Like when PHUs are so overrun that the inept PC gov closes parks as some type of ass-backwards Hail Mary play and that makes you "big mad", ya?
Me too. So we got mad and yelled a bunch and look: parks open.
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Me too. So we got mad and yelled a bunch and look: parks open.
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But you know what else is open?
The Amazon warehouse that packaged and shipped the fifty-third craft project you ordered to keep your kids entertained without a screen for at least twenty minutes. That& #39;s open.
So is the grocery store you Instacart your Fudgeos from.
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The Amazon warehouse that packaged and shipped the fifty-third craft project you ordered to keep your kids entertained without a screen for at least twenty minutes. That& #39;s open.
So is the grocery store you Instacart your Fudgeos from.
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Ditto for the https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚍" title="Entgegenkommender Bus" aria-label="Emoji: Entgegenkommender Bus"> https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚉" title="Haltestelle" aria-label="Emoji: Haltestelle"> that many working in the warehouse and the grocery store use to get to work each day to ensure you get your stuff. It& #39;s "essential", right?
And no finger-pointing, here. I& #39;ve ordered both crafts and Fudgeos *multiple times*.
It& #39;s been a year, after all.
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And no finger-pointing, here. I& #39;ve ordered both crafts and Fudgeos *multiple times*.
It& #39;s been a year, after all.
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But all of that is open and no vaccines specifically for those workers. No guarantee that those we called heros exactly a year ago can be made safe from this malevolent virus. No #PaidSickDays for those that are the most vulnerable, those we keep referring to as "essential".
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So financially secure white people (like me), here& #39;s the deal: you can& #39;t shut up.
Sorry not sorry, but you can& #39;t.
Yes, you& #39;re tired. Yes, you& #39;re hurt. Yes, you& #39;re angry.
So is *everyone*.
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Sorry not sorry, but you can& #39;t.
Yes, you& #39;re tired. Yes, you& #39;re hurt. Yes, you& #39;re angry.
So is *everyone*.
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But you know what everyone isn& #39;t?
Financially comfortable and white.
You know what everyone doesn& #39;t have?
The immense amount of privilege and power that comes with both in our super-inequitable society.
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Financially comfortable and white.
You know what everyone doesn& #39;t have?
The immense amount of privilege and power that comes with both in our super-inequitable society.
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And that privilege and power is real. Look at the parks. Seriously.
The Ford government didn& #39;t change their mind because it was "the right thing to do" or because they had "new information".
They changed their mind because a bunch of well-off white people went ballistic.
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The Ford government didn& #39;t change their mind because it was "the right thing to do" or because they had "new information".
They changed their mind because a bunch of well-off white people went ballistic.
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So use it! Use the privilege! Use the power! But not only for playgrounds. Use it for things far more consequential.
Use it to demand #PaidSickDays.
Use it to demand #EssentialWorkers get vaccinated.
Use it to demand smaller class sizes because #SafeSchoolsSaveLives.
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Use it to demand #PaidSickDays.
Use it to demand #EssentialWorkers get vaccinated.
Use it to demand smaller class sizes because #SafeSchoolsSaveLives.
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And if you& #39;re annoyed, if you& #39;re like "I do!", well, then I& #39;m probably not talking to you. But I know most of us well-to-do white folk aren& #39;t. I know this bc the parks are open today & I saw who screamed about them being closed.
But those hero workers? Remember the cartoon?
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But those hero workers? Remember the cartoon?
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Not only do they not have paid sick days; not only do they not have vaccine priority; not only do they have to send their kids to classes that are jammed so that they can make ends meet.
On top of that, they& #39;re not even making a living wage. You know why?
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On top of that, they& #39;re not even making a living wage. You know why?
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Bc the "hero pay" they got for a couple months got slashed.
Bc the @OntarioPCParty, as one of their first orders of business, slashed the one-dollar min wage pay increase.
(Oh...the meagre two paid sick days, too.)
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Bc the @OntarioPCParty, as one of their first orders of business, slashed the one-dollar min wage pay increase.
(Oh...the meagre two paid sick days, too.)
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And you know what we didn& #39;t hear from most white peeps w/https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💵" title="Banknote mit Dollar-Zeichen" aria-label="Emoji: Banknote mit Dollar-Zeichen"> when all of that happened?
The collectively vocalized, unified, and concentrated rage that leverages racial privilege and economic power to effect change.
So again: sorry not sorry.
Parks aren& #39;t good enough.
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The collectively vocalized, unified, and concentrated rage that leverages racial privilege and economic power to effect change.
So again: sorry not sorry.
Parks aren& #39;t good enough.
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Use your privilege & power to keep squeezing this government - *OUR* government - to serve the people it purports to represent.
Use it. Otherwise you& #39;re just like the guy that closed the parks because it was the easiest thing to do to avoid doing anything real at all.
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Use it. Otherwise you& #39;re just like the guy that closed the parks because it was the easiest thing to do to avoid doing anything real at all.
/Bye
