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Just so we're all clear, policing the food purchases of people using SNAP benefits says so much more about you than anything in their shopping cart says about them.
People in a position of need still deserve tasty food that makes the day to day grind of life more bearable.
People in a position of need still deserve tasty food that makes the day to day grind of life more bearable.
"bUt tHeY bUy jUnK fOoD wItH mY tAx dOlLaRs!"
Who gives a fuck? Do you bitch this much when your tax dollars are used for war, or do you reserve your concern about how tax dollars are used only when it's making life more comfortable for people in a place of need?
Who gives a fuck? Do you bitch this much when your tax dollars are used for war, or do you reserve your concern about how tax dollars are used only when it's making life more comfortable for people in a place of need?
The shaming of the poor in the US is a favorite pastime for way too many people, and a good number of them claim to be liberal or progressive. They're the kind of people who likely would reinstate workhouses or poor farms if they could.
They probably watch "A Christmas Carol," and assume they're everyone but Scrooge, when the truth is, they would be content to let the vulnerable starve before they'd concede the birthday cake and crab legs, so as to "decrease the surplus population."
A stretch? Not really. When people show you who they are, believe them. If someone has energy to police other people's food purchases, they're not good people, and I put nothing past them. Nothing.
I've been poor and used SNAP benefits. There is enough humiliation attached to it without some smug asshole going on social media and reinforcing stigma and stereotypes about people on SNAP.
I also volunteer at a food pantry. Do you know how much thought I give to what kind of car a client has, what kind of phone they use, what they're spending their money on, etc, when they come to the pantry? None. Zero. My only concern is giving them food. That's it.
Yeah, this is a long thread, but the stigma attached to poverty, and all that comes with it, is especially bothersome to me. People really show their whole ass when they think they're being one of the good ones by policing the purchases of poor people.
