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[YoungDemCA]

56. The divison between economic and social justice is a false one

And is generally a division that is conceptualized by people whose basic rights are not under constant assault, or whose opportunities are not being denied, or who are constantly being thought of as less than human by the dominant culture, or who are not otherwise being dismissed, marginalized, and oppressed.

Wanna talk about economic justice? Let's talk about economic justice.

How about the fact that the majority of American women work outside the home, and many of whom experience various forms of harassment and discrimination - some forms more obvious than others, but all of it dehumanizing - in their work experiences? From being paid less, to being passed over for promotions, to experiencing sexual harassment from employers or co-workers? (Let alone, what happens on the street).

How about all of the women, particularly many lower-status women (poor women, women of color, less educated immigrants) who can't afford to go to work because someone has to take care of their children?

How about all of the employment-based discrimination, and discrimination built into marriage law, against gay and lesbian couples?

How about how deindustrialization, the Great Recession, and economic downturns in general have hit the black working class and other communities of color the hardest - especially when you consider that many in these groups had little to no economic clout to begin with?

How about the fact that the solid majority of the American working class (if you include sub-minimum wage, under-the table labor, or unpaid labor in general - i.e. domestic, agricultural, etc. labor), the vast majority of the very poor, the hardest hit by cutbacks to social services and unemployment benefits and food stamps and other forms of "welfare"-are women, minorities, and immigrants?

Women (including the majority of women - who work inside and outside the home, and regardless of whether their labor is compensated or not by wages), people of color (including black Americans, Latinos, "Asian-Americans", and other highly diverse communities that all fall out of the white mainstream, and the majority of whom are poor and/or working class) LGBT (who, contrary to popular stereotypes, are by and large not upscale, effeminate middle-class white men living in gentrified, trendy cities )-all of these communities and groups have been on the FRONTLINES of struggles for economic and social justice.

The two are not separate. And violence -both state and interpersonal, committed against women, people of color, the LGBT community- is also an economic issue, for what it's worth. Put it this way: Whose wallets suffer more, when their son is killed, when their husband is arrested and sent to prison, when they can't go to work for a while because they've been victimized/traumatized by sexual violence, when their entire neighborhoods' housing values drop drastically as soon as they move in, because more affluent white people move away (out of racist fears of the potential attraction of the "criminal element" to the neighborhood)?

The so-called "social issues activists" have been on the front lines for economic justice for a long, long time. They are inseparable for those who have always been subordinated by the privileged and powerful. Maybe there's something to that inseparability.