I know that I cannot know everything about everything in the world. I know that, given my upbringing, my way of life, and how I perceive it, that I don't know the harsh reality of racism seen by those who live in that situation time and again. It still baffles me why people stay in that situation, and the methods they use to fight against it (very counterproductive and not only hurting their message, but causing ideals to be skewed in a way that it's perceived that they want to be the top dog, the bully on the playground, the very evil they condemn) are horrendous at best.
This looks to be what Ramy was talking about, a point of view that stems from being financially well off your whole life. For people in poor situations, they don't have the option to just get away from it. No money to move to a better area, no money to get a better education or time to attend classes because your multiple part time jobs barely give you time to sleep. Can't get a better job because you lack the above education or training. No family to help because they are stuck in the same boat. And if you become a parent, it puts your kids in the same vicious cycle.
So you lash out to vent your anger and frustration. Others feel the same way and it turns into a mob mentality. All the while, they get told the equivalent of "don't be poor", which compounds the frustration of trying to have a meaningful conversation. And that feeds back and forth between both sides.
Think of how you said you hate being classified as sexist/racist because you are a white Republican. These people are classified as being lazy leeches because they are poor.
Does this apply to everyone then?
Are you saying that there aren't people who choose to stay in that lifestyle because it best suits them? If poverty and squalor is so horrible, like everyone states, you would think that these very people would do whatever they want to escape from it.
And (surprise) people do so. Yes, it's hard, but people
have escaped poverty. And people will continue to escape poverty.
The lazy and the leeches want to stay there because they still get rewarded just for being alive, and squander their good fortunes of people who actually give a ***to try to take them away from such poverty. But that's not all of the poor. That's just the lazy leeches you are defending, the one's who are comfortable of their positions and, while stay there, demand more free stuff from those who give them such way of life.
They are the perfect example of the problem that you cannot solve an issue by throwing money at it. All that does is creates a status of dependency, and also creates additional greed from those who's only "contribution" to society is poping out more registered voters for the democrat/liberal party, who keeps them in that position knowing that they have a true voter base that will never betray them, as long as the free ***keeps coming.
