gaby :)
@gabydvj.bsky.social
policy reporter @ the verge ✨other work elsewhere ✨ writing a book about ecofascism
my perennial complaint 😭 also thank you!!
September 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
my perennial complaint 😭 also thank you!!
i needed to see for myself!
September 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
i needed to see for myself!
![Pan finds even calls for redistribution suspect when they focus on closing the racial wealth gap rather than closing all wealth gaps. “On paper, the median white household in the US owns about $189,000 in assets, whereas the median black household owns only $24,000,” she writes, and “the average white household wealth is around $840,000 greater than average black household wealth.” Still, Pan claims, there is an outsized focus on these disparities; in fact, liberals’ “fixation” on the racial wealth gap is indicative of their desire to maintain the current economic order. “[C]losing most of the existing wealth gap between blacks and whites—without first closing the massive wealth gap between the rich and the poor—would largely necessitate making already-rich black people richer, while conversely, very little of the racial wealth gap would only be closed by helping poor black people acquire more wealth.” That is only true if one doesn’t know the difference between medians and averages.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cs444bydobnijs2uf26pl2ia/bafkreiadagyarfpg5ciyzeo6v755euiyxa4tqrumsjbwtstiwmqeox65dq@jpeg)
does it make sense? literally no, not at all. and yet that’s what people think! which is why it’s so shameful and frankly pathetic that dems caved on immigration and blamed their fecklessness on “public opinion”
June 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
does it make sense? literally no, not at all. and yet that’s what people think! which is why it’s so shameful and frankly pathetic that dems caved on immigration and blamed their fecklessness on “public opinion”