Re:Rejected for a Job at the Container Store
by kjs3 on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @04:50PM
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Saying privilege doesn't factor in when someone trots out the old "poor people would be just fine if they weren't lazy/ignorant/poor/etc" is just as much an attempt to silence a viewpoint you clearly don't agree with.
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Re:Rejected for a Job at the Container Store
by wutbrodo on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @06:02PM
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Nonsense. The view that (to paraphrase) "poverty is attributable to laziness" is ridiculous on its own merits; Your claim that an ad hominem is necessary to show how wrong it is is even more ridiculous.
Re:Rejected for a Job at the Container Store
by none_for_me_thx on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @06:17PM
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Luckily, no one trotted out that argument. Even if they had trotted it out, making wimpy appeals to the claimant's "privilege" has no bearing on whether the statement "poor people would be just fine if they weren't lazy/ignorant/poor/etc" is true or not. Such claims can be exploded in the same way as any other false claim. By addressing the argument and exposing it as untrue.
Re:Rejected for a Job at the Container Store
by zo1 on Thursday November 13, 2014 @02:40PM
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What do you mean by "factor in"? Are you saying I have my viewpoint because I'm privileged? Are you saying my viewpoint on the matter would be different if I didn't have the privilege? Or are you saying that my viewpoint is invalid because I have privilege?
Or something else, entirely? Really, I'm curious... As someone whose parents had no privilege and were poor.