I've had a lot of these discussions with people, but so very few get it.
The statement I keep hearing the most is how 'people on welfare are just too damn lazy to get a job' and 'the hard-working man has to suffer and pay for them'. Of course, this statement is typically uttered by white, middle-class, straight, well-educated, fully healthy people (and more often men than women, I have to say), who just have to suffer sooooo much in society, don't they? They have to work sooooo hard and aaalllll their money goes to those lazy poor people. And then allll these marginalized groups keep whining about how bad their life is. When it's the rich white man that suffers and has to pay taxes for them!
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I've had a lot of these discussions with people, but so very few get it.
The statement I keep hearing the most is how 'people on welfare are just too damn lazy to get a job' and 'the hard-working man has to suffer and pay for them'.
Of course, this statement is typically uttered by white, middle-class, straight, well-educated, fully healthy people (and more often men than women, I have to say), who just have to suffer sooooo much in society, don't they? They have to work sooooo hard and aaalllll their money goes to those lazy poor people. And then allll these marginalized groups keep whining about how bad their life is. When it's the rich white man that suffers and has to pay taxes for them!
They don't know what suffering is. The fuck. :\