Re:On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't
by birdyrooster on Monday March 01, 2021 @01:16PM
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He said poverty doesn’t have a color implying that black people aren’t impoverished because of systemic racism, but because they don’t work hard enough. It’s racist drivel.
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Re:On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't
by camelite on Monday March 01, 2021 @04:25PM
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An interesting social science result is that one (in my mind, the primary) result of wokeness is deminished empathy for impoverished whites. I took ops comment to mean "hey, don't disregard my struggle because i happen not to be black", rather than seeing, as you apparently have, "racist drivel". A point I'm sure has been made a million times, and which you are no doubt impervious to, but one that remains valid nonetheless.
Re:On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't
by pmiller2 on Monday March 01, 2021 @02:00PM
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Keep in mind, you're referring to a comment on a message board that took maybe 30 minutes to write, and likely less, not an op-ed in the NYT. Read more charitably, and in context, "poverty doesn't have a color" sounds more like "people of any race can end up poor."