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It's really great to see poor white people considered as people in need. (It would have been even better if the article considered poor asians, too. They're not
by Crake 13y ago
It's really great to see poor white people considered as people in need. (It would have been even better if the article considered poor asians, too. They're not all rich doctors.) It's a huge demographic that's desperately in need of help, but it doesn't score you any brownie points to help the "unexotic"--just as the article highlights. As a result, many languish in poverty instead of fulfilling their full potential.
I know a lot of people who are poor, rural, and white, and they really struggle while resources are freely given to far more affluent peers of a different color. It's really sad to watch someone's dreams of college die before their eyes due to race based discrimination.
- lilsunnybee 13y agoPoor people of all colors suffer much more from class-based discrimination. Rich people spend their money on trifles like ipads and gaming computers rather than trying to help their struggling neighbor. Maybe it has something to do with how separated we all are, that rich people probably haven't even really talked to a poor person in years, and operate based on stereotypes and contempt.
- Crake 13y agoYeah, most of the people who get on the PoC privilege train clearly haven't interacted with low income people for a while. I saw a girl from a $70,000+/year family say once that her family was lower middle class. wtf. One of the worst SRWs I've met, everything was racism to her. She went into social work, and the last I heard was a blog post complaining about how one of the people in a case she was working had called her spoiled. El-oh-el.