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tartra

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I hope we can Bell Let’s Talk about it next year

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“we have so many other priorities”

I don’t know how these people tie their shoelaces knowing that ‘more important things’ are happening anywhere else in the world

God forbid people have more than one thing on their to-do list

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That’s definitely how I hope it’s taken by the general public!

It looked like a sign that management had posted in solidarity with the elevator companies rather than with the workers themselves, so I figured it was meant to be taken cynically.

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It’s hard to be the only person fighting sometimes. Especially if she was surrounded by people who were all for this, what good is throwing a sprinkle of water at a bonfire?

It’s not like she quietly disappeared. She publicly denounced it and went on record actively against it. Making changes require negotiations, and her colleagues have shown they no interest in negotiating.

It is extremely unlikely that this was her Plan A. It’s also extremely unlikely that it was just this one isolated thing. And now, she’s free to join groups that actively interested in fighting against this and throwing her experience and network in as resources to help them instead.

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Maybe that would wake people up enough to do something.

I’m sick of making shitty incremental process all the time when people need actual change put in place, all because “it’s better than nothing”.

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Puts the anger onto the people striking. Classic.

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Unfortunately, the people who should be concerned by that are the employers, and it’s not historically common for them to give a shit amout their disabled employees enough to prioritize their access overall, let alone in particular as a result of this strike.

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LMAO @ them whining “but we worked really hard on it”

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History attaches names to things, so resigning at least makes sure you aren’t the one remembered bringing this policy out.

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The disgust - which should be the bare minimum - is very, very often withheld.

So go full force on disgust. That’s plenty on its own. It’s not just about them who organized this, but to show to everyone this is targeting (non-white supremacists) that this is not accepted in our communities, and that the people who aren’t directly targeted by this do not want to be in the company of white supremacists either.

The weaker the disgust is, the more it emboldens others to think ‘lesser’ forms can sneak in under the radar, since it’s not ‘as bad’ as the first thing they did. Everyone who’s targeted by the impact of this hatred sees those attempts made over and over again, so shutting it down each time shows that there’s never going to be a compromise of “okay we’ll do a little bit of racism because we have to meet in the middle”.

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