ladyatheist:

karnythia:

If you can’t see the problem with using terms like “Occupy” while standing on stolen land, or grasp what’s offensive about terms like “wage slavery” or demands that POC not speak of race at Occupy & instead focus on class? Nothing else i have to say will…

I had similar feelings, though admittedly not as much with the vocabulary used which is additional food for thought. I was mostly pissed that those who lost their middle class status (ie. a major white population) only stood against injustice when it affected them, and the major consensus has been that POC were simply lazy and able but unwilling to change their class for decades. But now that the distribution of wealth has spread even thinner, it’s finally apparent that intelligent, hard working, people can be poor/unemployed. Which clearly speaks volumes to the importance of a voice when it’s a person of color and when it’s a white person. I thought it was a step in the right direction though, and I understand the anger behind OWS, and don’t think it’s totally unjustified, but it’s mainly a movement by white people for white people, because there are so many important issues for POC that go unaddressed and unmentioned. It has, however, sparked attention and better, more positive projects like Occupy the Hood have come from it.