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This always resonates with me. If you haven't been dirt poor, or worse, homeless, you don't know what it's like to be poor. Your opinions are purely academic. I once had a "Christian lady" give me the stink-eye for buying a birthday cake for my 4 y/o daughter with food stamps. 1/ https://twitter.com/snacktavist/status/1325806014256586758
She wanted a princess cake. We couldn't afford gifts for her, but we could get her this cake and this woman was angry about it. Her argument was that I should teach my kids to live without such luxuries because they were poor. 2/
That translates into, "Learn your place, underclass peasant!"
Years later I saw a similar scene unfold in another grocery store. I interceded, told the "voice of decency" off and gave the shaken mother some money to buy a gift for her little boy. 3/
Years later I saw a similar scene unfold in another grocery store. I interceded, told the "voice of decency" off and gave the shaken mother some money to buy a gift for her little boy. 3/
I was able to do that because I never "learned my place." My place is where I want it to be and those that think I don't deserve it because I've been poor and homeless can go to hell. 4/
Don't tell the poor to "live within their means." They often have no means. People who tell them that are basically saying, "crawl off and die so I don't have to look at you." Don't tell the poor shit. Help fix the poverty problem. 5/
That's harder than maintaining an exploitive class system that we've lived with for centuries, but it's morally correct thing to do. /rant.
