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blaming the victim

Championing Postal Workers Is Good Class and Economic Sense

November 19, 2015 by Maynard Seider Leave a Comment

I watched the second Democratic debate hoping that Senator Bernie Sanders would clearly articulate an economic policy that would differentiate him from Hillary Clinton, that would advance the interests of American workers and that would easily resonate with the millions of debate viewers. Unfortunately he didn’t. Instead he continued to lash out at the one […]

Filed Under: Building Economic Alternatives, Classism in Politics, Dismantlng Classism Tagged With: blaming the victim, boycott, low-wage jobs, middle class, middle-class jobs, public services, unions

Teacher sanctioned for challenging welfare stereotype

August 17, 2014 by "RCC" 4 Comments

“Ladies, keep your legs crossed and your minds opened,” wrote a 58 year old undergraduate student who works in college admissions and recruitment in an online post in my sociology class. She said the economy was being destroyed by welfare mothers who have more babies for more welfare with many different men and that society […]

Filed Under: Class in Higher Education, Teaching about class Tagged With: academia, blaming the victim, classism, poverty, speaking up, welfare bashing

Pioneering Black Class-Analysts

February 26, 2014 by Betsy Leondar-Wright Leave a Comment

Black History Month got me thinking about some of the African-American thinkers who have taught me the most about class/race intersections: 1) W.E.B. DuBois, author of The Souls of Black Folk (1903), was many decades ahead of his time in connecting the subjective experience of racism with its institutional dimensions. He had a global view of […]

Filed Under: Race and Class Tagged With: blaming the victim, classism, intersectionality, race and class, racism

Debt-Shaming in Contemporary Capitalism

October 28, 2013 by Gale Newell 3 Comments

I know that Dave Ramsey’s advice has done a lot of good things for a lot of people. There are thousands of people who are currently living debt-free as a result of Ramsey’s approach to personal finance—that’s great, and I’m not trying to take anything away from that. I’m simply saying that, even though Dave […]

Filed Under: Class in the Media, Classism in the Economy Tagged With: blaming the victim, classism, debt

Responding to Supreme Court’s affirmative action decision

June 24, 2013 by Bill Fletcher Jr. Leave a Comment

My first response to the Supreme Court’s decision in the University of Texas case was to breathe a sigh of relief.  I had been expecting affirmative action to be ruled illegal.  Instead the Court, in effect, said that the University had to prove that non-racial methods were ineffective in creating greater diversity. We should, however, […]

Filed Under: Race and Class Tagged With: affirmative action, blaming the victim, race and class, racism, unemployment

Thinking Positive Thoughts as the Ship Sinks: Oprah, Tolle & New Age Classism

April 9, 2013 by Nicole Braun 31 Comments

I’m concerned about classism in the new age, self help and spiritual movements. Oprah Winfrey’s show and “lifeclass,” which many people study religiously, promote individualistic “create your own reality” ideas, including the philosophy of guru Eckhart Tolle. “Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it,” Tolle writes. These ideas can be […]

Filed Under: Internalized classism, Pop Culture Classism, Spirituality and Ending Classism Tagged With: blaming the victim, individualism, New Age spirituality, poverty, unemployment

Les Miz: Class themes in Oscar nominees #2

February 24, 2013 by Betsy Leondar-Wright Leave a Comment

The poverty in the Les Miserables movie seems more realistic than most poverty portrayed in fiction in one crucial aspect: the way desperately poor people in Les Miz are preyed upon. Fantine is deceived and ripped off by the Thénardiers, who try to extort as much money as possible from fostering her daughter. Then as […]

Filed Under: Class Themes in Film and Fiction, Poverty Tagged With: blaming the victim, bullying, classism, criminal justice system, immigrants, poverty

Action on inequality: Getting class recognized as a protected category

February 1, 2013 by Traverse City Rice and Roses Human Rights Project 5 Comments

As the economic inequality gap continues to widen, students at Grand Valley State University in Traverse City, Michigan, started saying that they were tired of “talking” about economic inequality; they wanted to “do” something. We feel that there is a growing emergency. Waiting for things to get better in some far off future began to […]

Filed Under: Class in Higher Education, Classism, Classism in the Economy, Poverty Tagged With: academia, blaming the victim, classism, low-wage jobs, speaking up

Classism in Academia

September 19, 2012 by Julie Withers 23 Comments

A little over two years ago, a student called me a ‘cunt’ in front of 38 other students. My academic employer did little to protect me and allowed a local, “progressive” paper to attack me in a newspaper/Internet article. I believe this had everything to do with my being a popular but adjunct, community college […]

Filed Under: Class in Higher Education, Workplace classism Tagged With: academia, blaming the victim, classism, working class

Ubuntu and The Self-Made Myth

March 15, 2012 by Jessica Morneault 3 Comments

We’ve all heard rags-to-riches stories about successful individuals who “pulled themselves up by the bootstraps.”  Certainly, many successful business people owe their good fortune to hard work and innovative thinking. But, to describe those people as “self-made” would be to dismiss a big piece of reality—the role of the commons. Would Bill Gates have enjoyed […]

Filed Under: Class cultures, Classist Corporations, Money, Politics and Class, Poverty Tagged With: blaming the victim, class cultures, owning class, privilege, super-rich

Overlooking luck

January 23, 2012 by Emily Loftis Leave a Comment

Can someone please explain to Newt Gingrich that people not wanting a job typically doesn’t cause poverty; being unable to get a job causes poverty.  I would strongly assert that very few people want to be unable to provide for themselves and their families.  People who have only experienced privilege often do not recognize the […]

Filed Under: Class in Higher Education, Classism in Politics Tagged With: blaming the victim, education, first-generation college students, poverty, privilege, public school, working class

Condescending Baby-Feeding Advice

February 17, 2011 by N. Jeanne Burns 2 Comments

I read this article about negative breast-feeding myths among African Americans in The Root and sat upright when I saw this bit of social class cluelessness: “…myths persist because of a lack of education among African Americans.” The myths about the dangers of breast feeding described in Jamila Bey’s article exist because two generations ago […]

Filed Under: Class in the Media, Classism in Everyday Life, Race and Class Tagged With: blaming the victim, breast-feeding, corporations, kids, trendy child-rearing

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