Medicare for all? No thanks, I don't want to pay for other people's healthcare. I like private insurance, where I pay for other people's healthcare and for the salaries of blood sucking middlemen who's entire purpose is telling me NO! when I need healthcare.

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    It's not like people are explicitly saying (or even consciously thinking) "well I like universal health care, but I don't want black people to have it". It usually gets laundered mentally through discrimination towards "the poor", who in a lot white folks' minds are usually black people (and that's where the welfare queen trope comes in). It's in the view that "the poor" are just looking for handouts and don't deserve help because I work hard and they don't.

    • Hoodoo [love/loves]
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      3 years ago

      That sounds a lot more like what I've heard. Thanks for explaining this!