Careful, mate

This image comes up on a regular basis in the interwebs, and I wanted to keep it on my blog, because to me it carries a lot of truth. Simplified, sure, but it shows the most powerful tool the powerful have to protect their oftentimes ill-deserved riches. Framing the discussion. The worst we can do is to accept such framings without asking where they came from.

A rich dude with all the cookies tells the white dude with one cookie that the black dude with no cookie wants to steal his cookie

Careful mate, that foreigner wants your cookie.

Apparently this was drawn by the Australian Denis Lushch around December 2019