Not givin’ up
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You don’t simply stop “doing the right thing” just because you’re not “winning.”
I got the original meme but I don’t understand this. Can someone ELI5?
Are they suggesting that its sad that “you” would think people only deserve food water and shelter?
It could because its very US centric.
A lot of people in the US argue that the poor don’t deserve anything, any lack of money is a moral failing, and they don’t deserve any kind of help.
They have that attitude because capitalism has gaslit them into believing the “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps” lie to justify their position that someone who is thirsty should be allowed to die of thirst, someone who is hungry should be allowed to die of hunger, and someone homeless should be allowed to die of exposure.
The person in the meme is arguing against those people, saying all humans actually do all deserve food, water, and shelter. All things US conservatives would happily deny someone who was suffering. The cruelty is the point.
I hope this helps!
Oh wow okay. Arguing against a point I didn’t know needed arguing against. Thanks.
That is indeed sad as fuck. And as someone disabled to the point I’m unable to work, also scary as fuck.
A lot of people in the US argue that the poor don’t deserve anything, any lack of money is a moral failing, and they don’t deserve any kind of help.
A bit of a reduction. It’s not that being poor is a moral failing, but there is a mindset that if you don’t have a job, it’s your fault, and that if you have a job but are still poor, you’re probably wasting money on drugs or something. It’s not so much “they’re poor because they’re a bad person so I shouldn’t help them” as “if I help them then they won’t help themselves.” Which is an easy position to hold if you don’t consider how little the low-hanging jobs can pay, how much rent costs, how much food costs when you can’t home-cook it, and how hard it is to get a job when you don’t have a number, address, shower, or clean clothes.
And then there’s a second group that thinks “Well, we have systems in place. There are homeless shelters somewhere, so they should be going there instead of begging on the streets.” And they can be right, but you should probably do some research on said homeless shelters before you take that stance, in case it’s too far away to walk, understaffed/underfunded, or poorly managed.
It’s easy to think the poor don’t need your help if you don’t think on it too much, and to be fair, not everyone has the bandwidth and energy to be thinking on that. But at the end of the day, we have poor people, so those with means should be doing what they can to help.
We failed to prevent climate change, but it can get a lot worse. It is a bit like claiming we should stop build houses, because we have not prevented homelessness.
Climate change is not a binary. It might be too late for the best case scenario but we can still make it much less bad.
Bro stop posting leaked footage from Dune: Messiah
that’s a really gutsy thing to say
