And the wokest will use this story to show why we have to say locked down forever and how anyone protesting lockdowns is a white supremicist who hates poor blacks, even though shit like this is entirely preventable and has fuckall to do with whether non-essential businesses open up or not.
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@teriyakiburns I'm also a little tipsy and there's something about the lockdown rhetoric that bothers me that I don't feel like I can talk about elsewhere without mincing my words.
You have these financially comfortable middle class authoritarian lefties using the poor, the elderly and "POCs" as shields for why it's unethical to reopen, but the truth is that the most vulnerable are still going to be in the exact same position regardless of any lockdown lifts, unless those areas get the specific attention they need. Opening hair salons and office buildings doesn't change what's happening in the nursing homes/meat packing plants/tenements etc
These assholes are narcing on people walking in the park with their kids without a mask on, when that's not where the goddamned problem is.
They use the most vulnerable as nothing more than a tool to advance their own desires. And they call it the humanist stance.
They're convincing themselves it's about protecting the most downtrodden, but it's really about how they don't want to go back to work themselves. If it was about the migrant workers and prisoners and eldery they'd atleast be offering ideas on what can be done to protect them.
My friend in California (of course) posted
this article about how Trump stopped thinking of the coronavirus as an emergency when he found out it was mostly killing the elderly and poor blacks. It got 118 likes. I was the only person who made a response and I asked "what needs to be done to help the people who are the most vulnerable to this disease?" and I didn't even get a single half assed answer, just a bunch of "heart" responses. This is exactly what people mean by "virtue signalling".
This is why even though I am ostensibly "left" in many ways, I am absolutely disgusted with "the left" these days. They don't give a shit about anything but saving their own asses even though they go above and beyond to pretend like they're the ones tending to the disenfranchised.
I know this is autistic, but as a "low wage essential worker" who they claim to be speaking for, it pisses me off. There's nothing wrong with looking out for yourself and your family, you don't have to cloak it under the false pretence that it's about protecting anyone else.
