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Bringing up impoverished people every time someone asks what one should be eating doesn’t answer the question and it’s exhausting to watch “Avocados are health
by hombre_fatal 6y ago
Bringing up impoverished people every time someone asks what one should be eating doesn’t answer the question and it’s exhausting to watch
“Avocados are healthy and—“ “Umm, try living in a food desert with three jobs!”
Yes, it sucks for those people, but pointing out poverty doesn’t silence the conversation about nutrition for the rest of us who can afford some cheap vegetables.
- jwilber 6y agoAgreed. But when someone posts a one-sentence solution to a difficult problem, and frames it in the most condescending manner possible (eg “It’s not hard.”), it’s difficult not to respond with a low-effort (and very real) counterexample. I’m curious what the “unsilenced” (???) conversation would continue to look like in your opinion- seems to me like the “not hard” comment of the original response implied not much conversation was left to be had.
- cortesoft 6y agoYeah, but if the conversation starts with “large agribusiness is unsustainable and needs to end”, you can’t propose a solution that doesn’t feed the entire population.