How About Other, Real, Longstanding Social Issues Other Than The Corona Virus?

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By now, the virus needs no further explanation. How about other issues that receive lip service at best?

There is still VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN. Politicians have yet to restrict movement to combat something that has been around for millenia.

CHILD POVERTY still exists in a country as wealthy as this one.

FIRST NATIONS PEOPLE still don't all have clean drinking water - something else that causes disease.

FIRST NATIONS WOMEN and IMMIGRANT GAY MEN go missing every day. To date, thousands have disappeared. Where is the national crisis there?

Why don't these issues receive the same attention? Because the old money of the northeast and the new money of elsewhere cannot be adversely affected by these issues. The fact that their 4th cruise in a year is interrupt requires the rest of us to give a sh**.
 

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By now, the virus needs no further explanation. How about other issues that receive lip service at best?

There is still VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN. Politicians have yet to restrict movement to combat something that has been around for millenia.

CHILD POVERTY still exists in a country as wealthy as this one.

FIRST NATIONS PEOPLE still don't all have clean drinking water - something else that causes disease.

FIRST NATIONS WOMEN and IMMIGRANT GAY MEN go missing every day. To date, thousands have disappeared. Where is the national crisis there?

Why don't these issues receive the same attention? Because the old money of the northeast and the new money of elsewhere cannot be adversely affected by these issues. The fact that their 4th cruise in a year is interrupt requires the rest of us to give a sh**.

PREACH HORSE!!!!
 
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Weird intersectional strings are answers here
There is still VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN. Politicians have yet to restrict movement to combat something that has been around for millenia.
Twofold problem: a large contingent of the male and female population that doesnt give a fuck until it happens to them or someone they hold dear, and is still apt to excuse it then, and the underlying realization that even as women incur the most physical harm from this issue, it can't be solved without opening up the conversation to violence in general..
CHILD POVERTY still exists in a country as wealthy as this one.
Child poverty exists as an auxilary to poverty in general...which is an unfortunate feature of the current expression of capitalism in the West, primarily. To enable the uplifting of children in general also uplifts traditionally disenfranchised populations, whose economic plight is again a feature, not a bug of Western Capitalism.
FIRST NATIONS PEOPLE still don't all have clean drinking water - something else that causes disease.
Unclean drinking water is also a common thread to a far larger number of American citizens in poor and disenfranchised areas. Not rrying to set up an oppression olympics, just understanding the hierarchy of concern at play. If the powers that be doesn't give two fucks about the drinking water of low income, working class Republicans or Democrats living in Flint, you shouldn't hold your breath for concern over the descendants of those that the aforementioned predecessors displaced.
FIRST NATIONS WOMEN and IMMIGRANT GAY MEN go missing every day. To date, thousands have disappeared. Where is the national crisis there?
More black women/girls, and Transwomen of color disappear or are murdered than those two categories combined, and i promise youll hear less about that.

I think these are conversations being had but I think we need to be honest in realizing that very few issues in this nation are considered a national crisis until they affect the moderate majorities comfort or status quo.
 
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By now, the virus needs no further explanation. How about other issues that receive lip service at best?

There is still VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN. Politicians have yet to restrict movement to combat something that has been around for millenia.

CHILD POVERTY still exists in a country as wealthy as this one.

FIRST NATIONS PEOPLE still don't all have clean drinking water - something else that causes disease.

FIRST NATIONS WOMEN and IMMIGRANT GAY MEN go missing every day. To date, thousands have disappeared. Where is the national crisis there?

Why don't these issues receive the same attention? Because the old money of the northeast and the new money of elsewhere cannot be adversely affected by these issues. The fact that their 4th cruise in a year is interrupt requires the rest of us to give a sh**.
You seem like the kinda guy to as why there isnt a white history month.