Conservative Media: All CEOs should be men.
Liberal Media: We need more women CEOs.
Here's a thought: End classism.

American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) has put up its explanation of the recent US Office of Management & Budget order halting federal aid.

It explains what we currently know about it and what we can do.

https://www.aapd.com/federal-funding-freeze/ @disability #USpol #Ableism #Classism

Me: Constantly feeling imposter syndrome.

Also Me: Speaking up vociferously and giving my qualifications when people talk about academic science and exclude Masters students.

@academicchatter @plantscience #AcademicChatter #Science #Classism

"These narratives have seeped into mainstream discourse. The chancellor, Olaf #Scholz, famously promised mass deportations. [...] Liberal outlets such as @ZEITONLINE published essays questioning whether immigrants could “civilise”. Today, the #AfD’s cultural essentialism resonates far beyond its voter base.

[...]

It allows Germany’s liberal establishment to avoid reckoning with its own complicity in normalising reactionary ideas."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/08/elon-musk-afd-germany-mainstream-far-right

"The United States is commonly thought of as a low-tax country. But workers effectively pay some of the highest taxes in the developed world — without getting a decent welfare state in return." #USA

https://jacobin.com/2019/04/labor-tax-rates-united-states-health-insurance

Today in Labor History January 1, 1934: A "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring" went into effect in Nazi Germany. The Eugenics research that Hitler used to justify torture and genocide was inspired by similar research from the U.S. The American eugenics movement originated in the 1880s, from the biological determinist ideas of Francis Galton. He believed that selective breeding could improve the human race and allow them to direct their own evolution. The U.S. eugenics movement was heavily funded by the Carnegie Institution, Rockefeller Foundation and the Harriman railroad fortune. Biologist Charles B. Davenport founded the Eugenics Record Office (ERO) in 1911. The ERO trained field workers, who they sent to study people in mental hospitals and orphanages across the U.S. Davenport and others began to lobby for solutions to the problem of the "unfit." They lobbied for immigration restrictions and sterilization. Some even promoted the idea of extermination, well before Hitler became known for it. Some well-known eugenicists of the early 20th century included Alexander Graham Bell, Luther Burbank and Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger. The eugenics movement tended to target the poor, people with disabilities and mentally illness, and specific communities of color as “unfit” for society. Their solutions included forced sterilization, which continued in the U.S. until as recently as 2010. From 1997-2010, California performed nonconsensual sterilizations on roughly 1,400 women prisoners. From 1929-1973, North Carolina sterilized the third highest number of people in the United States, roughly 7,600 people, predominantly African American women.

The Power And Prescience Of Octavia Butler's 'Parable Of The Sower' : 1A : NPR

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/08/1210938285/1a-10-08-2024

#BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #ScienceFiction #USPol #OctaviaButler #MAGA #bookstodon #dystopian #precarity #Change #resistance #LongArc #AlternateHistory #classism #racism #feminism #TheCultingOfAmerica
#AltRight #Christendom #dominon #ChristianRight #religion #ideology

#DearAbby: Even in #death, I can’t #forgive my #teacher for how she #mistreated me.

I remember her as #manipulative and having a #negative #attitude toward the less fortunate.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Education #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Classism

https://www.silive.com/advice/2024/11/dear-abby-even-in-death-i-cant-forgive-my-teacher-for-how-she-treated-me.html

Être #antivax c'est être #classiste #raciste et #validiste
Voilà.
Et reprendre "mon corps mon choix" pour justifier cette posture, c'est dégueulasse. Ton corps, le non-choix de toustes (merci @morayner )

#antivaxxers promote #classism, #racism and #ableism
And justifications like "my body my choice" are a shame. Your body, the absence of choice of everyone else.

I see we are back to the Classism and Ableism of the previous Labour Government.

It's not Brexit that's harming the nation's economy it's 'Fat People'

With the implication that the obese are lazy and feckless, and that's why Britain is a shithole

Fuck you Wes, nobody likes you

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/14/unemployed-could-be-given-weight-loss-jabs-to-get-back-to-work-says-wes-streeting

Did anyone see that #Basque #Spanish film "#ThePlatform" / "#ElHoyo" directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia?

I highly recommend it if you haven't seen it, I saw it on #netflix:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Platform_(film)

Excellent entertaining deconstruction of #plutocracy and #classism

Anyway Gaztelu-Urrutia is back, with "Rich Flu"

Description:

"A disease targets the richest people on Earth, starting with billionaires, then millionaires, and so on, causing people to give away their assets to avoid death"