{"id":2429246,"date":"2026-05-23T12:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T12:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2429246"},"modified":"2026-05-23T12:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T12:39:20","slug":"on-i-love-boosters-who-gets-to-critique-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/on-i-love-boosters-who-gets-to-critique-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"On &#8216;I Love Boosters&#8217; &#038; Who Gets To Critique Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>I was a middle class suburban kid who would have been <em>fine<\/em> if I was fired from my job shilling \u201cSo Cal, so low\u201d jeans at the mall. I was also a worker being paid minimum wage, facing microaggressions and forced to dress the part or pack it up. When Hollister\u2019s parent company, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.naacpldf.org\/case-issue\/abercrombie-fitch-employment-discrimination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Abercrombie &amp; Fitch was facing lawsuits for discrimination (opens in a new tab)\">Abercrombie &amp; Fitch was facing lawsuits for discrimination<\/a>, they promoted me and my other colleagues of color to be the front-of-house greeters. We smiled, said the taglines, and made the company feel better about its blatant racism and exploitation. <em>I Love Boosters<\/em> is for retail workers who never got to express their rage, for the boosters just trying to make a buck, and for everyone whose lives have been made worse by billionaires just getting richer by the day. Actors are actually some of the best people to critique capitalism because, as <em>I Love Boosters<\/em> never forgets, survival, especially for working-class women of color, has always required performance as much as perseverance.<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.refinery29.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a middle class suburban kid who would have been fine if I was fired from my job shilling \u201cSo Cal, so low\u201d jeans at the mall. I was also a worker being paid minimum wage, facing microaggressions and forced to dress the part or pack it up. When Hollister\u2019s parent company, Abercrombie &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2429247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[21741,21912,312171],"class_list":["post-2429246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-the-latest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/On-I-Love-Boosters-Who-Gets-To-Critique-Capitalism-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2429246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2429248,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429246\/revisions\/2429248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2429247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2429246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2429246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2429246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}