• aaa ( aaa@lemmy.zip ) 
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    edit-2
    8 months ago

    What are examples of indignities caused by social hierarchical structures I might experience but dismiss due to habit?

    Edit: thanks, all! Were some examples I thought of before, but many “novel” ones too. Definitely nice to try to be explicit about it, I think

    • The Cuuuuube ( Cube6392@beehaw.org ) 
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      edit-2
      8 months ago

      school funding coming from property tax

      EDIT: I fired that off quick while I was in the middle of something and failed to explain how this acts as a system of oppression and white supremacy. Schools in high income neighborhoods have better schools because they have more access to resources. Properties in good school zones have higher property values because families with the money to buy homes in those neighborhoods want their children to receive a good education. This creates a circular feedback loop in which people who already have access to more resources are more likely to receive a high quality education. The students from lower income school zones are not dumber. They are simply being strangled by a system that wants to gate them from achieving academic and financial success.

      • yes*

        it is fine, but such a relationship should always be critically inspected by anarchists. relying on someone’s expertise and following their suggestions is fine and reasonable, that shouldn’t take the place of individual thought and autonomy

    • most honest people like to be able to explain (to themselves at the very least) why they are doing what it is that they are being told to do. When one can’t come up with a satisfying answer, that’s when the authority of the leader will need examining, having their integrity weighed and measured, and considered for rejection/replacement (choice of the follower to defect from that particular dictatorship). The issue these days is that most people have no deep driven reasoning for anything that they are doing on a day to day basis, aside from the usual tendencies towards self-preservation.

  • CaliforniaSober ( CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca ) 
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    8 months ago

    I disagree with the consumption of (Etc) because the excess of the capitalism of the branch of “something” that I guess is some other stuff is just as bad and eh… something something…. As a branch of anarchism and given the whole subversion of the last ism branch means the loss of the whole other ism branch…

    The point is no one should have a valid point. Even if you can see a path forward your likely not liberal enough to achieve it…