i live down south and keep seeing local business owners posting in local groups pleading people to come buy shit at their stores prior to this winter storm because if they have to close for a few days it’s apparently detrimental for them. like they’re entitled to exist. in any other context this behavior would be considered desperate and begging. but we’re conditioned to think small business tyrants are some class above us all who are entitled to not have to work a job like the rest of us. worst case scenario they lose their business and that’s what happens, and working people are conditioned to feel sorry for them. “please don’t let me become underpaid by some asshole exactly like myself!!!”
Was talking to my white coworker and said id never visit Hawaii because of how detrimental tourism is to the indigenous Hawaiians and they literally tell people not to visit Hawaii in solidarity and my coworker says “you can still go, just support local businesses” like that undoes colonization or changes that there isnt enough water there to sustain the population.
Same coworker also had a temper tantrum and then used white tears on me when I said buying stolen land in the US is still part of colonization like it is in Gaza
yeah and something tells me a lot of those local businesses aren’t owned by native hawaiians
And even if they were the comprador/petite bourgeoisie are less affected by the occupation of Hawaii than the poor indigenous Hawaiians, of which there are way more