If we don't establish at the outset that our problems are person-made, it makes it impossible to animate audiences to demand they be person-fixed.
People don't "lose" their jobs or homes, like we do our phones, keys and wallets.
Wages don't acquire additional gravity and thus fall.
"Gaps" between groups do not self-propel to become wider.
Wages don't acquire additional gravity and thus fall.
"Gaps" between groups do not self-propel to become wider.
When we make "systems" the culprits for present harms, we kneecap our ability to generate and sustain mobilization. You can't go protest at "systemic inequities's" house.
An ever wealthier handful of powerful individuals make the decisions that produce the harms we fight. People do things. And our language must always highlight this.
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