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wearentreallythe99percent:

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Wow, yeah, this is the slimiest thing. It’s an entire blog dismissing and minimizing everyone’s suffering on the justification that they have digital cameras and possibly computers!

From their summary:

We aren’t the real 99 percent. The real 99 percent exist in famines in East Africa, in the slums of India, without food, water, or sanitation - we live a life of luxury compared to them.

I love a good ol’ fashioned “don’t you have more important things to think about” derail.

-Joe

These sorts of comments thrive on the black-and-white stereotypes of what poverty needs to look like.  It reminds me of comments I saw about how some people who use food stamps can’t possibly really need them because they wear nice clothes.  To people like these, poverty is nothing short of absolute wearing-rags-and-living-in-an-alleyway destitution.

Laptops and cameras, like nice clothing, don’t magically disappear the moment you lose your job.  Due to the quickly-evolving nature of electronics, pawn shops pay a pittance for them (and would you rather have a quick $50 or a laptop you could use to help you find a job?) and you’ll be far better off keeping those clothes for job interviews than dumping them off at Plato’s Closet for spare change.  But obviously you’re not really poor or really justified in criticizing a system that has failed you, because you have yet to reach generic African country levels of destitution.

(Why is it that Conservatives only acknowledge that there are problems in third-world countries that need solving when telling dissenters to shut up and think about something else?  Oh, wait, I don’t have time to ask that question.  I’m too busy thinking about India.)

(via stfuconservatives)