Ozarks kitchen, 1936

I agree, but at the same time almost everything can be coopted to blame/hurt the more oppressed group. They’re either a “burden” and obviously inferior (thinking immediately of how vitamin D deficiency due to partial starvation was seen as a natural weakness), or they are “happy that way… SEE!?”

The key, to me, is whether or not the discourse is about “us” or “them” because if you are talking about “them” and they aren’t talking about themselves, then chances are you are forcing a narrative for your own reasons.

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