{"id":5248,"date":"2022-01-16T07:56:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T12:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=5248"},"modified":"2022-01-16T07:56:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T12:56:27","slug":"starting-the-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2022\/01\/16\/starting-the-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting the Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g\">We Didn\u2019t Start the Fire<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 Billy Joel&nbsp;&nbsp;(an amazing \u201cballpark\u201d concert last fall!)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Jeep<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I was driving around in my 2004<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Jeep yesterday.&nbsp;&nbsp;Though it\u2019s an older vehicle, I updated the sound system to \u201cmodern\u201d times \u2013 blue tooth connectivity, all new speakers, no CD player (or tape or eight track).&nbsp;&nbsp;On longer trips I use my phone to select what\u2019s playing.&nbsp;&nbsp;Sometimes it\u2019s classic rock, especially on those summer excursions with the top down and the sun tempered by the breeze. Often, it\u2019s&nbsp;<em>MSNBC&nbsp;<\/em>keeping up with the constantly shifting politics.&nbsp;And sometimes its lectures:&nbsp;&nbsp;the Civil War, the Federalist Papers, Constitutional Law, and all cued up for this spring\u2019s travel season, the American Revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0But if I\u2019m going on a shorter trip, I don\u2019t go to all the technical trouble of setting my phone for the audio presentation.\u00a0\u00a0I just listen to the radio \u2013 either a classic rock station, whatever ballgame is on WLW (like my father before me), or National Public Radio (NPR).\u00a0\u00a0All that, to explain the brief excerpt I heard on NPR that led to consideration of the \u201cisms\u201d of our time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CRT<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We all know about Critical Race Theory (CRT). It\u2019s a study of the impact of legacy racism on the legal system.&nbsp;&nbsp;The term was intentionally misappropriated to become the \u201cwatchword\u201d of the right.&nbsp;&nbsp;They use it to explain any attempt to diversify our educational system, or correct the injustice of history lessons written to intentionally protect racist actions.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s an inappropriate \u201cshorthand\u201d, but because it sounds bad: \u201ccritical\u201d like near death, \u201crace\u201d with winners and losers, and \u201ctheory\u201d like the science that the \u201cright\u201d disparages, it works for them.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s sounds so much better than just being \u201cracist\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CRT is just another battle of the soon to be minority white culture warriors, trying to maintain power.&nbsp;Gerrymandering and voter suppression are two more battlefields in the same conflict.&nbsp;&nbsp;And while I sometimes despair for what my country has become, there is an inevitability in the census statistics:&nbsp;&nbsp;America will ultimately be a diverse nation without a single \u201cmajority\u201d racial or ethnic group.&nbsp;&nbsp;We will change, willingly or not.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ageism<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>But there are other, less well known \u201cwatchwords\u201d that try to explain our cultural behavior. \u201cAgeism\u201d is used to describe the discounting of the older generation, what in slang seems to be defined in a single, now pejorative term, \u201cBoomer\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0The impact of ageism is subtle. As I arrive at the \u201cage\u201d, I\u2019m just beginning to notice it. It\u2019s not just the slightly slower and louder speech pattern some take with me.\u00a0\u00a0As a highly qualified sixty-five year old who didn\u2019t get a job to a highly qualified thirty-eight year old, the thought can\u2019t help but creep into my mind \u2013 was it the gray hair and long resume?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other day there was a long Facebook response to my \u201crant\u201d about Covid (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2022\/01\/13\/im-done\/\">I&#8217;m Done<\/a>).<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0Part of their argument compared the total US death rates from the flu (pre-Covid) to Covid deaths of those under sixty-five, trying to show how the flu and Covid were kind of the same.\u00a0\u00a0My first thought was that those sixty-five and over were part of the flu deaths, so the argument was inherently flawed.\u00a0\u00a0But even more, why would discounting the deaths of those sixty-five and over from Covid be an \u201cOK\u201d argument to make?\u00a0\u00a0Are their lives less valued by their gray hair or slowed gait?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ableism<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Or the term I heard on NPR the other day, \u201cAbleism\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;That\u2019s the watchword used by those who have disabilities to explain the inherent bias against them in many physical and social areas.&nbsp;&nbsp;What we think of as infra-structure issues:&nbsp;&nbsp;ramps and elevators versus stairs, the \u201cjokes\u201d about braille on the drive-thru banking machines, are only part of the issue.&nbsp;&nbsp;Like the gray hair, does a wheelchair change the opportunities for employment?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The speaker pointed out that those who are disabled are often \u201cwritten-out\u201d of the conversation about Covid.\u00a0\u00a0For example, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control, stated that those with \u201cco-morbidities\u201d had the highest risk of dying from Covid, but that for most others there was less risk.\u00a0\u00a0While the statistic is certainly true, it includes many people with disabilities.\u00a0\u00a0Her using it to justify how well the vaccines are doing seems to them that, like the \u201csixty-five and over\u201d crowd, they are somehow in a different category that discounts the importance of their deaths.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Perspective<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m sure that\u2019s not what Dr. Walensky meant, but hearing it from a different perspective is important.&nbsp;&nbsp;Just like the casual \u201csixty-five and over\u201d, the \u201cco-morbidity\u201d argument denies humanity.&nbsp;&nbsp;Sure Colin Powell had a long-term cancer.&nbsp;&nbsp;Sure he was weakened by the treatments.&nbsp;&nbsp;It made him \u201cless-able\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;But to say his death from Covid was somehow less tragic or less important is wrong.&nbsp;&nbsp;But for Covid \u2013 Colin Powell would still be alive.&nbsp;&nbsp;The blood cancer didn\u2019t kill him:  Covid did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And a final point on \u201cableism\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;Millions of Americans had Covid infection.&nbsp;&nbsp;Some are left with \u201cLong Covid\u201d, varying symptoms that don\u2019t go away.&nbsp;&nbsp;So the ranks of \u201cpersons with disabilities\u201d are likely to swiftly increase from the impact of Covid.&nbsp;&nbsp;How will they be treated in the future?&nbsp;&nbsp;Will our current national desire to \u201cforget\u201d Covid include forgetting them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fight the Fire<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Racism, Ableism, Ageism, Sexism, Audism (against the deaf), Cissexism (against transgendered), cultural appropriation; 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