Why do liberals hate poor people now?

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Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Life seems pretty great when you're the privileged middle class of countries that extract imperialist super profits.

Even this is quickly becoming less true because the middle class is eroding away.

The future is going to be a massive 99% underclass who spend their days building luxury toys and services for a tiny rich elite.

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dk2m posted:

mmhmm, yes the guy that burns the cross on the yard deserves respect because he's *~poor~*

the true left wing project is to not humanize anybody against egalitarianism and to not have sympathy for fascist scum just because they're poor

What do you define as "fascist scum?" All Republicans? Anyone who voted for Trump? Anyone who doesn't hold entirely correct left-wing beliefs?

Lots of people here would use these sentiments to write off like half of the voting population in which case, have fun with Trump 2020. Shaming the voters, deservedly or not, doesn't loving win elections. You don't validate their bigotry but if you have nothing positive to offer them they're not going to vote for you, it's pretty simple.

# ¿ Mar 29, 2017 20:54

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You are literally suggesting that we should write off like 50% of the voting population :psyduck:

Do you realize that a majority is required to win elections?

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"Poor and conservative" describes a ton of minority voters as well, they just generally don't vote for Republicans for obvious reasons.

# ¿ Mar 29, 2017 21:02

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I'll have you know that all minorities are woke as hell, in fact the majority of Latinos and black people that don't support gay marriage is all a right wing conspiracy

Some good news on that front, pretty sure that doesn't apply to Latinos anymore. Still a lot of conservatives though that you definitely would not want to write off.

# ¿ Mar 29, 2017 21:11

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wizard on a water slide posted:

as an aside I think it's astounding that there are ppl on this forum and probably itt who take it as axiomatic that people on the trans spectrum or w/e are inherently repulsive, while simultaneously not getting how someone can hate poor people

nobody likes poor people, including a lot of poor people; poor people constantly need financial help, dress and eat poorly, are less healthy, less educated, etc etc etc

liberals hate poor people for the same reason everybody else does, which is that many of them are repellent; liberals are just more forthright about it because they're more concerned with aesthetics than socialists and the far right, and they have fewer other people to spread their hate around to (whereas the us far right, for example, hates pretty much everybody including each other). the foundation of social science is the belief that we're products of our environment, and study after study after study has shown that poverty has negative consequences on basically every physical and mental quality of a human being

here's the punchline tho: this is precisely why nobody deserves to live in poverty

this is why you become a leftist in the first place, why you fight for economic justice, etc because poverty is loving gross and inhumane, and the myth that it's somehow ennobling and aggrandizing is one of the vilest lies in american mythology

in other words, turn their hatred of poor people into passion for economic justice lmao

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Hillary and Jeb! both ran campaigns that would have been more at home in the early 90s, they were way out of touch with our current political reality.

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