npub15th6y0m8c79aq5qg2arvpw955jr4c5cvvvvkrxz70tnh4n282dzq2a6nvx (npub15th…6nvx) Which always SEEMS like a great idea until you're a member of a marginalized group, and realize that mutual aid ALWAYS leaves out *somebody* in need, because they are the "wrong type".
Mutual aid is the ultimate tribalism: you can only ever trust members of your own tribe to care enough to even TRY to help you during the tough times. For the disabled and immunocompromised that is a tale as old as time: our tribe has always been one another.
Unfortunately, however, we've never had much of anything to share with one another.
But from what I've seen of mutual aid in practice in the real world, it always ends up being just another way to socially stratify people based upon tribal affiliations. Those who have the most help those in their own tribe, and they all stay affluent and powerful. Social tier after social tier this happens until, as always, the "undesirables" are scrabbling in the muck sharing the nothing they have, just scrambling to stay alive.
Trusting other people is fine if you're socially accepted into a large, powerful tribe. But it is death to those of us who are undesirables.
the cake is offline /
npub18v…exm5z
2024-01-06 13:39:44
in reply to nevent1q…3stg
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