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What's real interesting is how 5-10 tweets' worth of "you evil librul city doctor" didn't get a reaction, so he went for "oh you're just petty dumb peasant ex-manual laborer with a chip on your shoulder."
Make up your mind dude I gotta know which shoes to bring https://twitter.com/HerHandsMyHands/status/1272857305709756421
Make up your mind dude I gotta know which shoes to bring https://twitter.com/HerHandsMyHands/status/1272857305709756421
He's not the first farmer to pull this little swaparoo either.
It happens a lot!
"You can't know what you're doing because you have professional training!" is a bit that usually works for them somehow.
So that's their first-tier, go-to insult.
It happens a lot!
"You can't know what you're doing because you have professional training!" is a bit that usually works for them somehow.
So that's their first-tier, go-to insult.
Farmers have trained most Americans be ashamed of not being one of them.
Which is SUPER interesting, considering the whole reason most Americans are no longer farmers is because the ancestors of today's family farms evicted us. https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1268587932018974722
Which is SUPER interesting, considering the whole reason most Americans are no longer farmers is because the ancestors of today's family farms evicted us. https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1268587932018974722
That shame is a powerful tool. The second there's an ounce of criticism about agriculture, they switch on the tears.
"How dare you, you elitist jerk??"
And they've got us trained so well that it works even when the criticism is 100% valid.
"How dare you, you elitist jerk??"
And they've got us trained so well that it works even when the criticism is 100% valid.
That's why- if you don't respond to that baiting- things get interesting. They don't know what to do!
I like to let 'em dangle. They get frustrated! They get so freaked out that they start to say what they're really thinking.
"Oh yeah? Well you're JUST a manual laborer."
I like to let 'em dangle. They get frustrated! They get so freaked out that they start to say what they're really thinking.
"Oh yeah? Well you're JUST a manual laborer."
It's a hell of a thing for farmers, who are so proud of being "humble men of the earth," to just blurt out loud.
I love it so much when that happens
I love it so much when that happens
It should go without saying that this is heavily racialized.
With me, they have to spend a few rounds spinning their wheels on the "fancy librul bitch" talking points. If I were, say, Latinx, the conversation often starts out already on the "fuck you peasant" tier.
With me, they have to spend a few rounds spinning their wheels on the "fancy librul bitch" talking points. If I were, say, Latinx, the conversation often starts out already on the "fuck you peasant" tier.
This is THE core problem in US agriculture.
A whole lot of farmers genuinely think they're a cut above the rabble.
Which makes sense when you consider how many US farmers today are descended from sharecropping landlords, not "family farmers" per se. https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1268588232138207239
A whole lot of farmers genuinely think they're a cut above the rabble.
Which makes sense when you consider how many US farmers today are descended from sharecropping landlords, not "family farmers" per se. https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1268588232138207239
That's why they feel SO entitled to welfare, that actually fixing their own business is unthinkable.
That's pride. That's a whole lot of ego & entitlement right there.
And that's why I tell anyone who'll listen that the "humble family farmer" image is mostly PR.
That's pride. That's a whole lot of ego & entitlement right there.
And that's why I tell anyone who'll listen that the "humble family farmer" image is mostly PR.
In real life, a lot of farmers think life is a nice lil game where folks who don't own land pay money to those who do.
If you make creases in that picture they get real mad. They stomp their little feet & start yelling out so many words that some of them are actually true.
If you make creases in that picture they get real mad. They stomp their little feet & start yelling out so many words that some of them are actually true.
Anyway, that's why I do this. There are much better ways to fix the food system, like employee-owned farms & food distribution. There's a huge, elitist, scammy underbelly to the "family farm" romance & folks need to see it.
