1) (If you stop sharing the cookware story, they will stop writing about it).
2) Do you know how many toxic pots and pans have long been on the market? That should be the real story. Reporters feel free to talk about that. Do you how many people in poverty are constantly exposed to toxins in their cookware? pca.state.mn.us/featured/are-y…
3) As someone who lived in the south, a lot of friends parents were conservative and they *only* had expensive cookware. Middle-class/wealthy conservatives, especially conservative women, don’t *actually* care about the story. They know how much they’ve spent on their cookware.
4)As someone who grew up poor (and still has little money) we never had a quality cookware. First time I owned a nice Creuset pot was when my conservative mother-in-law gave me one. And oh damn, quality food & good non-toxic cookware is something everyone should have access to.
5) Conservative media made this a story because they’ve long determined that BIPOC communities shouldn’t have access to most items. If you’re poor and you buy an iPhone you’re cheating the system somehow, if you’re well off and buy something expensive you’re uppity. We can’t win.
6)The way that we can “win” is not just by calling out the hypocrisy of The GOP/donors but by changing the policies they created to ensure their businesses are deregulated &/or pay little to no taxes, that allows them to corner the market (literally) on resources & opportunities.
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