04-18-2021, 12:57 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-18-2021, 02:23 AM by Eric the Green.)
If you have the patience, and skip past the comments of the interviewer, and turn up the volume, this guy shows the nature of neo-liberalism and its consequences.
https://youtu.be/3Ba2cWovROg?t=202
"neo-liberalism is the background of this economic, social, political and health crises that we are living through at the moment" (this includes according to him the destruction of human life by neo-liberal policy during the covid19 pandemic)
It is well-known that neo-liberal politicians like Reagan and Gingrich demonized African-Americans as responsible for their own poverty and dependent on the programs that neo-liberals seek to abolish.
The fact is that neo-liberal policy has defunded social and health workers and put all the burden of dealing with peoples' problems in black communities onto the police. This is why black lives matter protesters talk about "defunding the police," which really means re-allocating some of their funding back (or adding more) to the social and health workers defunded by neo-liberalism. Putting all the burden onto the police reduces problems in poor communities to keeping order, and empowers racist cops to attack unarmed black people. Also, the neo-liberal opposition to gun control as government over-reach has resulted in more proliferation of guns, so that cops fear that the African-Americans or others that they stop or seek to arrest might be armed, resulting in more police shootings. In addition, neo-liberal opposition to gun control has resulted in an epidemic of gun massacres by people using military weapons and large-capacity magazines, that is according to President Biden a "national embarrassment".
Helidah Didi Ogude - 08 June 2020 writes:
"the perversity thesis implies that those in need of welfare are in that position because of a lack in “self-discipline.” This pathology, however, is not ascribed indiscriminately. It is deeply gendered and racialized. For most, the figure of welfare is the so-called welfare queen: a promiscuous, ill-disciplined African American woman with a cigarette in her mouth, a baby on her hip, and many other malnourished children at her feet. Despite the fact that most welfare benefit recipients are in fact white, racial and ethnic minorities as well as women remain the primary targets of this stigmatization and shame."
https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog...ralized-us
globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/08/06/2020/unethical-minimal-and-cruel-welfare-state-covid-19-and-makings-demoralized-us
ANN CAMMETT writes:
"this stereotype also supports conservative theories that point to an inherent
“culture of poverty” as the cause of hardship in black families headed by
women, in lieu of recognizing persistent structural inequalities as the
primary source of such hardship. This theory, and its concomitant
rhetorical narrative, has had enormous resiliency: first as a site of resistance
to the Great Society programs of the 1960s that sought to alleviate overall
poverty, and then as a marker of the purported illegitimacy attributed to
black family structures. By tying these two concepts together, well-funded
conservative think tanks have continued to reinforce the notion of black
family dysfunction while simultaneously pressing for broader economic
policies that serve to disempower all working and middle-class families.
The strategy of shifting the discourse of growing structural inequality
in our neoliberal state to the “character defects” of poor black women was
remarkably successful. It persuaded the electorate to accept the
implementation of a political agenda of retrenchment. This neoliberal
paradigm has ushered in the demise of many of the institutions that formed
a bulwark of protection against exploitation for the middle class: public
benefits, collective bargaining, laws restraining the unlimited influence of
corporations in political life, and last but not least, the unprecedented
transfer of wealth from working Americans to the richest 1 percent and
their corporate allies. It is possible that no one has felt the repercussions
of this historical power shift more than low-wage workers, including many
black women. After all, many women who would have formerly been
welfare recipients constitute a huge subset of the most marginal workers of
today"
https://gould.usc.edu/why/students/orgs/...ammett.pdf
gould.usc.edu/why/students/orgs/ilj/assets/docs/25-2-Cammett.pdf
https://youtu.be/3Ba2cWovROg?t=202
"neo-liberalism is the background of this economic, social, political and health crises that we are living through at the moment" (this includes according to him the destruction of human life by neo-liberal policy during the covid19 pandemic)
It is well-known that neo-liberal politicians like Reagan and Gingrich demonized African-Americans as responsible for their own poverty and dependent on the programs that neo-liberals seek to abolish.
The fact is that neo-liberal policy has defunded social and health workers and put all the burden of dealing with peoples' problems in black communities onto the police. This is why black lives matter protesters talk about "defunding the police," which really means re-allocating some of their funding back (or adding more) to the social and health workers defunded by neo-liberalism. Putting all the burden onto the police reduces problems in poor communities to keeping order, and empowers racist cops to attack unarmed black people. Also, the neo-liberal opposition to gun control as government over-reach has resulted in more proliferation of guns, so that cops fear that the African-Americans or others that they stop or seek to arrest might be armed, resulting in more police shootings. In addition, neo-liberal opposition to gun control has resulted in an epidemic of gun massacres by people using military weapons and large-capacity magazines, that is according to President Biden a "national embarrassment".
Helidah Didi Ogude - 08 June 2020 writes:
"the perversity thesis implies that those in need of welfare are in that position because of a lack in “self-discipline.” This pathology, however, is not ascribed indiscriminately. It is deeply gendered and racialized. For most, the figure of welfare is the so-called welfare queen: a promiscuous, ill-disciplined African American woman with a cigarette in her mouth, a baby on her hip, and many other malnourished children at her feet. Despite the fact that most welfare benefit recipients are in fact white, racial and ethnic minorities as well as women remain the primary targets of this stigmatization and shame."
https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog...ralized-us
globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/08/06/2020/unethical-minimal-and-cruel-welfare-state-covid-19-and-makings-demoralized-us
ANN CAMMETT writes:
"this stereotype also supports conservative theories that point to an inherent
“culture of poverty” as the cause of hardship in black families headed by
women, in lieu of recognizing persistent structural inequalities as the
primary source of such hardship. This theory, and its concomitant
rhetorical narrative, has had enormous resiliency: first as a site of resistance
to the Great Society programs of the 1960s that sought to alleviate overall
poverty, and then as a marker of the purported illegitimacy attributed to
black family structures. By tying these two concepts together, well-funded
conservative think tanks have continued to reinforce the notion of black
family dysfunction while simultaneously pressing for broader economic
policies that serve to disempower all working and middle-class families.
The strategy of shifting the discourse of growing structural inequality
in our neoliberal state to the “character defects” of poor black women was
remarkably successful. It persuaded the electorate to accept the
implementation of a political agenda of retrenchment. This neoliberal
paradigm has ushered in the demise of many of the institutions that formed
a bulwark of protection against exploitation for the middle class: public
benefits, collective bargaining, laws restraining the unlimited influence of
corporations in political life, and last but not least, the unprecedented
transfer of wealth from working Americans to the richest 1 percent and
their corporate allies. It is possible that no one has felt the repercussions
of this historical power shift more than low-wage workers, including many
black women. After all, many women who would have formerly been
welfare recipients constitute a huge subset of the most marginal workers of
today"
https://gould.usc.edu/why/students/orgs/...ammett.pdf
gould.usc.edu/why/students/orgs/ilj/assets/docs/25-2-Cammett.pdf