• aaa ( aaa@lemmy.zip ) 
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    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 ) 
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      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.