uwuplasmiusuwu:coiffeurdoiseaux:[ID: extract from a wikipedia article over a photo of Alexandria Oca
uwuplasmiusuwu:coiffeurdoiseaux:[ID: extract from a wikipedia article over a photo of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wearing her “Tax the rich” dress at the met gala. Text reads: According to Fisher, capitalist realism has so captured the public thought that the idea of anti-capitalism no longer acts as the antithesis to capitalism. Instead, it is deployed as a means for reinforcing capitalism. This is done through media which aims to provide a safe means of consuming anti-capitalist ideas without actually challenging the system. The lack of coherent alternatives, as presented through capitalist realism, leads many anti-capitalist movements to cease targeting the end of capitalism, but instead to mitigate the worst of its effects, often through individual consumption-based activities. End ID] 1.2.3.If someone could please make this correction accessible to folks on screen readers, I would be really grateful. I would’ve just written it all out myself, but I’m on my phone and my hands are more painful than usual.Just in case it takes a bit though, highlights:1. AOC’s dress was designed by Aurora James, a black woman and immigrant. It was made by an, “all BIPOC/woman/LGBT+ team,” and the dress was borrowed for the event.2. Rich assholes like Musk have to pay for their tickets, a lot of entertainers get in for free because they make the rich assholes want to pay, gov’t officials get in for free as a matter of protocol, and it’s a fundraising event that makes the museum accessible so that it only costs $25, which is nowhere near as much as it would if they didn’t do something like this every so often.3. Basically, a bunch of y’all uncritically shat the bed by not doing your research, because sometimes people who grow up disadvantaged, manage to get into power, and say, “tax the rich,” are actually working towards making that happen.Next time, please think for 0.5 seconds before you pull the trigger, because you might be aiming at one of our only fucking allies. -- source link