Chad free public service vs. virgin profit-seeking private enterprise

  • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
    hexagon
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    2 years ago

    When the comment is "all Americans are too stupid to utilize a public service and actually just gamble all day", then yeah, I think that's a pretty shitty, anti-working class thing to say. Like, who do you think is using libraries, demographically speaking? Like every single public service it is disproportionately poor people, people of color, working women, the disabled, etc. It's sheltered/gross as fuck to act like everyone in this country is a boat dealership owning chud. It's literally attacking people for being systematically undereducated, which is a fundamentally reactionary thing to do.

    • I_Have_IBS [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Seriously. you can tell when a leftist still has elitist brainworms to eradicate because they’ll look you straight in the face and rant about how much they hate working class people lol

      :very-intelligent: “i don’t hate working class people, i just think think theyre all fucking idiots who should listen to my wisdom”

      bruh that’s the same damn thing

    • macabrett
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      2 years ago

      The person you said was "repulsed by poors" said nothing about gambling and they said nothing about the kinds of people that go to libraries. They shared (what appears to be) an inaccurate statistic on American literacy.

      • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
        hexagon
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        2 years ago

        Nah, that’s completely true. There is absolutely no fucking way Americans are visiting the library that often. Most Americans can barely read. You want me to believe that in a country where 21% of people are literally illiterate and the rest can maybe read as well as a fifth grader, the people are visiting libraries twice as often as the movies? Yeah, sure.

        This genuinely doesn't strike you as disdainful of working people? Making up garbage statistics to mock the idea of people going to the library?

        • macabrett
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          2 years ago

          No, not really. It strikes me as disdainful of America. I also don't think it's mocking the idea of people going to the library, it's mocking the idea of America liking something good. Misguided or not, I think you're assuming a lot about another person from very little and in an extremely negative way.

    • macabrett
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      2 years ago

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