term. We're talking about decent living wages with safe and humane working conditions. No one ever went wrong supporting these goals.

I stated I support workers. This statement put me on the receiving end of how supporting strikers was ableism and poor shaming because there are products for sale on Prime Day they couldn't afford otherwise. I was also informed that supporting workers makes me racist and anti immigrant because our nation was founded on stolen land and anything we do is hypocritical. Finally, if I support a strike I should be willing to send money to people who can't afford to pass up these deals.

I'm still not sure how they've managed to turn a powerful action by the worker into being a racist, xenophobic, abelist act of poor shaming.

in our minds.

To get to the arguments they were making. The newest argument was what if someone needs Plan B and has social anxiety so they can't get to a store?

At this stage it's mostly scenarios to back up everything they've spent on tablets and Fire sticks.

Union member for most of my working life.

State employee in the lowest paying state in the nation. I was informed that by supporting a strike I was poor shaming others from my place of privilege.

Comes from working with disabled adults and making a smidge above my state's poverty line.

I enjoy it but it really pays almost nothing. I'm passionate about the care received but I'm also passionate about worker's rights. I don't need to walk on the backs of others to get a discount.

Supporting striking workers in your own way is not.

When I stated I was not ordering due to strikes over working conditions I was informed that I was ableist and poor shaming. The ableism comments didn't begin until I mentioned that some workers were striking due to work conditions (14 plus hour shifts, no breaks, warehouses with no heat and no ac, etc). Once I stated that I stand with workers is when I suddenly became a self righteous person of privilege who practiced ableism and deserved shame.

But supporting Amazon workers is not ableist. I fail to see how allowing corporations to weaken and destroy labor has helped disabled people in any way, even if a particular corporation may provide goods and services that help some people with disabilities. No one, disabled or not, lives in a bubble. When labor is weakened and workers are exploited, we all suffer.

The last thing I would do is shame someone d/t a disability. But I also know that the workers have families, some who might also be disabled. By crossing a picket a message is sent to those families. Not supporting those workers is also poverty shaming since many are making poverty wages.

This was all about gaming consoles, tablets, air fryers and Fire sticks.

A Karl Rove strategy that's still used today.

A great deal on an air fryer on the backs of employees isn't worth it. We sometimes use Prime but have decided to hold off on those purchases the next few days.

Something happened between me and Amazon that's left bad taste for the company. But we do order now and then. I won't be shopping there during these Prime days, either. The nay sayers can stick it.

Someone asked me if I was going to give them the cost in savings if they decided to wait for after the sale. They said that these protests come from a place of privilege and that I needed to put my money where my mouth is.

I work in MR/DD for a state agency. My state is the lowest paid in the nation for state employees. My field is notoriously low paying. I make barely above poverty wage in my state. Without overtime I would fall in the nationwide levels. I'm not shaming anyone and I don't see where I'm flexing my privilege by choosing not to buy unnecessary items like air fryers while crossing a picket line.