Efforts to offer food free of charge presumes “that low income and or BIPOC communities and individuals (and that’s not necessarily one in the same) cannot provide or make decisions for themselves.” She says it comes out of the “white supremacy culture” of individualism and neo-liberalism.
“What this does is it pathologizes people and makes the assumption that they need to be helped,” Zuckerman notes.
This is not an incorrect statement, of course, being a leftist academic ideologue, she had to throw white supremacy into it. And I imagine, any changes she would make, if given the power, would be quite horrific.
One of the interesting things about humans is we are the only species that shares food outside of a parent/child or pregnant female/male relationship.
We will not only allow those outside our pack to eat with us but will actively take food to strangers in need.
This is a quite unique phenomenon so she is striking at the very heart of what it means to be human.
I have occasionally toyed with the idea that what they actually want is humanity pre-fire but it might be much more then that.
They might want to take us all the way back to pre-human.