The Girl Guides of Canada says it's pausing all trips to the U.S. starting in September, with plans to choose alternative locations, amid restrictions by the Trump administration.
Don’t gatekeep vulnerability. You’re buying into stuff that keeps the ultra wealthy in power. Almost everyone is “working class” and is dependent on the same things; employment from a likely crappy company, shitty healthcare, poor education, etc. Yes there are obviously groups that have suffered much more because of race, sex, ethnicity, etc., but acknowledging that life is a struggle–different but still a struggle–for most is a far cry from “all lives matter” which seems to discount the suffering of others. 99% of people can’t just pick up and leave and that’s a hard economic fact, to say nothing about the other pieces that make relocation challenging.
I certainly didn’t say relocating wasn’t right in the face of violence and fascism, but simply saying people “should” doesn’t make it any more likely when they face very real barriers to doing so.
Don’t gatekeep vulnerability. You’re buying into stuff that keeps the ultra wealthy in power. Almost everyone is “working class” and is dependent on the same things; employment from a likely crappy company, shitty healthcare, poor education, etc. Yes there are obviously groups that have suffered much more because of race, sex, ethnicity, etc., but acknowledging that life is a struggle–different but still a struggle–for most is a far cry from “all lives matter” which seems to discount the suffering of others. 99% of people can’t just pick up and leave and that’s a hard economic fact, to say nothing about the other pieces that make relocation challenging.
I certainly didn’t say relocating wasn’t right in the face of violence and fascism, but simply saying people “should” doesn’t make it any more likely when they face very real barriers to doing so.