U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 50 Years

Re:U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 5... by psyc on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @03:37PM (#25933590)

There is the widely accepted concept of an ally. You could be one. You'll be a second-class citizen. You'll have to supplicate for your place. For the 'space you take up' as they like to say. You'll need to keep up with the latest woke thinking on TikTok and Twitter, so you know how you're expected to think, believe, feel, speak, and act, in order to keep your probationary status as an ally. And it'll always be probationary. I'm not going to, but you could.

Ah, if only it was actually about empathizing and showing respect. Wouldn't that be something.

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Re:U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 5... by kibwen on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @04:01PM (#25933888)

This is such a startlingly uncharitable response that I don't know how to react. Where is this coming from? Who said anything about being a self-proclaimed "ally"? What do TikTok and Twitter have to do with this? It sounds less like you're here for a conversation about race and class and more like you have a need to unpack the distorted perceptions that one internet subculture has for another internet subculture.

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Re:U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 5... by uoaei on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @04:19PM (#25934088)

This comment wouldn't read much different if you had included the phrase "white genocide" somewhere. I recommend you consider from where these prejudices are sourced.

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Re:U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 5... by psyc on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @05:44PM (#25935176)

I don’t know what white genocide is, much less how it relates to anything I wrote. What you think you read probably isn’t what I thought I wrote. I was dryly lamenting the options available to progressives who are uncomfortable with the theory and praxis of the kiddies these days.

My prejudices, if you insist on playing that card, come from listening carefully to exactly the people who demand I shut up and listen. I actually go to great lengths to understand their point of view. Before I judge them.

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Re:U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 5... by uoaei on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @07:20PM (#25936252)

You've limited your experience to the loudest and most crass factions of the side you disparage as a whole. This is a form of straw man argument.

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Re:U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 5... by psyc on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @07:33PM (#25936412)

I thought I was disparaging the loudest and most crass factions.

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