This Restaurant Offers Food For Free If You Can’t Afford It
Just adding: that’s an Islam flag there and when I worked for a semester at a Mosque as part of a cultural exchange, the Imam told me that if there are hungry people within walking distance, then they are failing their duties.
I carry that with me always. Feed your neighbours.
My dad used to drive us around all the steel mills and refineries outside of Gary and Chicago when we were little. I have loved them ever since. I feel the same bliss as when I look at a beautiful castle.
When police officers, rich people, and other people with power are violent, it’s because they know they’ll be respected no matter what they do.
When oppressed people fight back and are violent, it’s because they know they’ll be hated no matter what they do.
You can’t accurately compare them.
More than that, powerful people know they’ll be safe no matter what they do, and commit harm out of entitlement because basically all our legal and social structures reinforce their right to commit that harm. They often believe they’re doing a good thing by reinforcing the hierarchy and putting vulnerable people in “their place”.
Oppressed people fighting back know what they’re never really safe in the current structure and that they need to protect themselves because the current social and legal structures are meant to oppress rather than protect them.
