ugu on Nostr: Not sure you have read exile and pride by Eli Clare, but he comes from a logging town ...
Not sure you have read exile and pride by Eli Clare, but he comes from a logging town and provides a very insightful critique of that community and the way it is treated by the leftist circles. A bit old that book, but still very meaningful.
It shows all those inherent contradictions in these communities. I myself come from a coal miner town, very simple people that hold all sorts of questionable believes. But it is too simple to put them all in the basket of deplorables. They wield little influence and their concerns are widely ignored. Structural change is hitting hard and all potlics got for them is blaming them for natural destruction as if when they would refuse to do the work there would not be instant replacement by other workers.
It's is kind of a common theme all around the globe to go after the small workers instead of corporations cause they are easy to critique and don't have the ability to defend themselves
It shows all those inherent contradictions in these communities. I myself come from a coal miner town, very simple people that hold all sorts of questionable believes. But it is too simple to put them all in the basket of deplorables. They wield little influence and their concerns are widely ignored. Structural change is hitting hard and all potlics got for them is blaming them for natural destruction as if when they would refuse to do the work there would not be instant replacement by other workers.
It's is kind of a common theme all around the globe to go after the small workers instead of corporations cause they are easy to critique and don't have the ability to defend themselves