Vicky Osterweil is a writer, editor, and agitator and a regular contributor to The New Inquiry. Her writing has also appeared in The Baffler, The Nation, The Rumpus, Real Life, and Al Jazeera America. She lives in Philadelphia.
Posted on 08/29/2020 9:49:12 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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What would you say to people who are concerned about essential places like grocery stores or pharmacies being attacked in those communities?
When it comes to small business, family owned business or locally owned business, they are no more likely to provide worker protections. They are no more likely to have to provide good stuff for the community than big businesses. It's actually a Republican myth that has, over the last 20 years, really crawled into even leftist discourse: that the small business owner must be respected, that the small business owner creates jobs and is part of the community. But that's actually a right-wing myth.
A business being attacked in the community is ultimately about attacking like modes of oppression that exist in the community. It is true and possible that there are instances historically when businesses have refused to reopen or to come back. But that is a part of the inequity of the society, that people live in places where there is only one place where they can get access to something [like food or medicine]. That question assumes well, what if you're in a food desert? But the food desert is already an incredibly unjust situation. There's this real tendency to try and blame people for fighting back, for revealing the inequity of the injustice that's already been formed by the time that they're fighting. SNIP
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National Public Restroom.
In all seriousness, this is the exact same brand of Neo-Marxism that the Nazis embraced: State support of croney Corporatism. Only state sponsored corporations and other businesses could exist and operate in Nazi Germany. Everyone else had to close up shop, namely the Jewish family owned businesses. We're not fighting mere Marxists in our midst today, we are fighthing true Neo-Nazis. And I can't stand g*dd*mn Nazis!
NPR doesn't do stories about the former owners.
Vicky Osterweil is a writer, editor, and agitator and a regular contributor to The New Inquiry. Her writing has also appeared in The Baffler, The Nation, The Rumpus, Real Life, and Al Jazeera America. She lives in Philadelphia.
This crap might go over amongst the feral, spear-chuckingl tribes in the deep, dark jungles of Africa, but it sure as hell ain’t gonna fly here in America. It ain’t there “stuff” to freely help themselves to anytime they want.
If we ever get to a point where this author’s argument and “logic” are persuasive to a majority or substantial minority of our fellow citizens, this country is effectively over. This is pure Bolshevism, something that many of us had hoped Reagan/Thatcher/JP2 had defeated a generation ago. Sadly, it appears that they only dealt Leninism a 30-year setback. It’s back, and it’s ugly.
Is that a tranny?
He left out the word “kulak”.
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I don’t think his poor soul knows what she is talking about, amongst others I used to be a small business owner for over half a century and provided some pretty decent jobs for quite a few. A couple of employees were with us for over forty years and others for decades, apparently an indication we all got along well and they liked what they were doing.
Reagan said it himself...
“Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction.It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people.Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.”
THERE IS NO DEFENSE!
That’s a man, baby!!!
A mentally-deranged man...quite similar to the one running PA’s health dept.
Luny aa a luny bird....NO credibility.
Why then Natalie Escobar won’t mind at all if a group of people break down her doors strip her house of anything saleable and then burn it to the ground. And maybe beat her to death or shoot her if she tries to defend her property. I think it would be a great experience for her.
DEFUND NPR.
I’ll take the topic “In defense of shooting the looting for $1000, Phil.”
NPR? Are we paying this Communist a Taxpayer funded Salary?
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Publishers should just keep accepting her articles for publication, and not pay her (and put them in the satire column or give them to Babylon Bee for ideas). Let her try to live by the same principles she advocates.
Looks transgender and I have no idea if it’s coming or going.
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