(((nataluna)))

Every country was built with stolen labor, the thing is that in Europe there were huge mega deadly strikes during the industrial revolution, and a couple of countries had socialist governments right before ww2, putting in place most of the labor laws that are now being dismantled.

I keep thinking about being conditionally accepted as important/valid/human/etc.

Like how in Hungary, they've removed legal recognition for trans people. Or how, before Brexit, I was a normal part of the populace. Or how I get full PIP, but they could take it away whenever they feel like it (National IDS Day, perhaps) and severely impair my ability to keep living. Or how most people don't mind my being here so much, but it's conditional - I'm white and my English is good.

Or it's all right to get Housing Benefit but only if you're also working 60 hours a week (and you're white, and your English is good), and those are also the only circumstances where it's okay to talk about being underpaid. Unless you work for Maccies, or you're a cleaner, or you work in a shop. Etc.

It just can't be right that we have an entire society in which whether or not you're valid as a human life in need of food, shelter, hygiene, respect, is conditional.

It's bad that those conditions are in the hands of a scuffle of posh arseholes who think genocide was okay when Churchill did it, but they shouldn't exist at all. No one should get to pick and choose who is or isn't worthy of life.