Fourtly, those "Midwestern White Men" can't afford to move out there. Those who could leave have largely already left.
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Replying to @Amanda_Kerri
Telling poor white people to go pick your food out of a sense of schadenfreude isn't a solution to the issue of race. It's revenge porn.
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Replying to @Amanda_Kerri
but it is morally normal revenge porn, when you're under material threat from precisely those white people and have been 4 generations.
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Replying to @csilverandgold
There's a limit to how far relieving pressure through shit talk and enjoying comeuppance can go before it gets toxic itself.
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Replying to @Amanda_Kerri
I didn't even say it isn't toxic. I am saying you know, I try to be careful about being TOO mad at people for giving back what they got.
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Replying to @csilverandgold
Oh true. A little bit of gloating is fine. Hell, I would argue it's natural. But there's a point where it's counter productive.
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Replying to @Amanda_Kerri @csilverandgold
And if you thought I was accusing you of being toxic, my apologies, that was not my intent, and I'm sorry if I gave that impression.
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Replying to @Amanda_Kerri @csilverandgold
It's just that my "day job" is working around social workers and I've learned a lot about poverty through exposure, and it frustrates me.
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Replying to @Amanda_Kerri @csilverandgold
There is a whole different world of psychology with poor people that is alien to folks who've never experienced it.
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Replying to @Amanda_Kerri @csilverandgold
For most Americans dealing with the poor, no matter what race they are, is as alien as dealing with someone from a foreign culture.
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Yes, although... have you found that difference to be lessened at all along racial lines?
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Replying to @csilverandgold @Amanda_Kerri
by which I mean: class distinctions among black folks are relatively novel relative to the history of poor white ppl in America.
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Replying to @csilverandgold @Amanda_Kerri
so in my experience, poor and middle class/rich black folks have a little better time relating to one another. But could just be me.
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