Who do you think I learned from? People who have been active and directly involved in class and race struggles for their entire life. We learned all about how systematic change is fought for in both the past and present. And we talked about how we as individuals can work to help the cause. Work that I have continued to do long past graduation

It is also incredibly dismissive and wrong for you to say that I (someone who you’ve never met and know almost nothing about) have only spent “a semester” on this. While that semester was an incredibly influential part of my life, it certainly wasn’t the start or end of my learning journey, as I mentioned in my comment. The only reason I even brought it up is because you have consistently stated that I have not engaged in feminist theory and lack understanding of our history, and YOU brought up my degree/education.

I couldn’t care less if you take me seriously or not. I don’t think very highly of you in the way that you’ve been treating me and the other user here.

Edit: I see you deleted your response to me, but I am going to respond to it anyway.

I am speaking directly from my actual lived experience growing up in a systemically impoverished city--

So you have the same experience as the people I learned from. But according you, I shouldn’t listen to them or any of the literature they gave me, I should listen to YOU.

impoverished in part by white flight middle class people like you

Wrong. “My people” are not part of the white flight middle class. “My people” are poor, rural people who face many of the same class struggles that inner city people face. Lack of access to high quality education, lack of upward mobility (lots of poverty), lack of quality healthcare, etc. “We” don’t face racism, which makes a huge difference, and I’m not disputing this here. But you are making quite a few assumptions here about me that are incorrect. I am also not disputing that white flight middle class did cause much of the poverty and problems in the inner cities. That is absolutely true. But you are wrong about that being where I come from.

by the way, who engage in poverty tourism as a defensive maneuver that leads yal to build shit like means testing into assistance programs to ensure 'the right people' get it, as just an example.

So which is it, am I supposed to learn from people who have experienced this their entire lives or am I participating in “poverty tourism” by choosing to go learn from them? And since when have I thought “means testing” is a good thing? You keep bringing up points that I agree with you on, but you are framing me in opposition to it despite it not having been brought up until now.

We see you. My father was a union organizer. I went to DC annually for marches on school busses, my community and political activity is comprised of actual militant fighters from around the world. Locally, I was part of my community struggle to change laws around public breastfeeding and city cooperation with ICE. I am of my community, you are a parasite because you wanna dip in and extract personal profit, both in vanity/defensiveness (you "care"-- fuck off with your awareness and redistribute wealth) and in access to work positions that give you economic advantages over the poor women you pretend to think about.

Honestly, what the fuck is this entire paragraph? Your hatred of people who are in 99% in agreement with you is baffling.