“What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be.” @winterjessica.bsky.social

“Tech companies are not doing enough to protect people from tragic outcomes because they are not designing these tools to be geared towards truth, merely towards engagement and profit,”

“If everyone’s a DJ but no one dances or earnestly cares about the music, everything has to be broader, more conspicuous. Artists are pressured to do whatever possible to be seen and heard, not their best work out of love.”

"at the 1988 Democratic National Convention, Jackson argued for a politics that takes class and identity seriously...that appeals to common identities and forges responsive solutions. “Politics can be a moral arena where people come together to find common ground,”"

"It is fashionable, in certain circles, to treat transgender rights as a supposedly woke distraction. But discrimination and exclusion are why transgender people are more likely to experience poverty and homelessness in their lives than most other Americans."
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"Politicians using economic populist or class rhetoric dont create working-class politics; at their best, they help assemble it Class politics always arises out of the identities and bonds people have already formed which is precisely why successful left politicians need multidimensional platforms."

"As capitalism develops, it generates social differentiation within the working class itself. Competition between firms and workers creates uneven development both within and between places."

"The reality is that working-class political action always develops out of the intersecting forces, interests, and identities of the working class itself and cannot be activated or imposed from above."