I hate poor people

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Thump553

Lifer
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I don't trust anyone who hasn't been poor at some point in their life. Builds character.
 

96Firebird

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Macamus, you do know the OP is about hating poor people, not about hating a race. Which is what the words "racist" means. See, you learn something new every day!

Unless you are calling all of a certain race poor. In which case, you're racist.
 

glenn1

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I always advocate helping the poor with things like free education, free or subsidized birth control, free abortions, free drug counseling, etc. It's nice to help these people, but at the same time I really hate these bastards. I live somewhat close to the ghetto and my bus passes through the ghetto on the way to work and on the way home. They fit every stereotype imaginable. Scruffy looking? Yes. Sideways hat with shoes that don't fit properly? Check. That crazy look like they could kill someone at any moment? Check.

It seems like the only reason I want to help these people is so they leave me the hell alone. Free abortions so they don't pass on their defective genes, free education so the smarter ones have a chance to escape the ghetto, and drug counseling so something soumething.

How do you feel about poor people?
1 - don't help them
2 - help them so they don't make my life worse
3 - help them because you genuinely want to help them

When urban liberals fear black men, they create social programs. When conservatives fear black men, they move to the suburbs so they don't have to support social programs. Main difference is that conservatives have far less fear afterwards since they know riots aren't going to impact them, only the urban liberals who tried to buy off the riff-raff.
 

ShawnD1

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When urban liberals fear black men, they create social programs.
The ones around here are not black. They're mostly white. They look like british chavs.
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When your own life is worth nothing, all you have left to show is stuff like gold teeth and bling.
 

BurnItDwn

Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
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I've got nothing against "poor" folks. I consider myself to be more middle class these days, but I've lived in Shitty apartments and trailer parks before as well. Anyhow, I don't like people trying to be what they are not. Ie, people living paycheck to paycheck due to bad decisions when in fact they have enough income that they should not have dug themselves into their hole.
 

Moonbeam

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ShawnD1: I hate poor people.

M: It doesn't sound like you really hate poor people. It sounds like you don't like how they make you feel or rather how they make you aware of how you already actually do feel but avoid most of the time. They annoy you for this reason sort of like how I annoy people when I tell them what they feel.

S: I always advocate helping the poor with things like free education, free or subsidized birth control, free abortions, free drug counseling, etc. It's nice to help these people, but at the same time I really hate these bastards.

M: Well sure, you hate yourself because you enable keeping them poor. You can't help people by giving them anything for free. You actually should be paying me for what I am telling you here or you won't take it in.

S: I live somewhat close to the ghetto and my bus passes through the ghetto on the way to work and on the way home. They fit every stereotype imaginable. Scruffy looking?

M: The poor can't afford to look really good so we can expect this, no?

S: Yes. Sideways hat with shoes that don't fit properly? Check.

M: Even the poor want to belong, no?

S: That crazy look like they could kill someone at any moment? Check.

M: I get that all the time regardless of income when I remind folk of what they repress, the madness inside they feel just below the surface. They have much less surface being poor. They are closer to the truth. That is why Jesus worked with them. Less ego bull shit to have to break through.

S: It seems like the only reason I want to help these people is so they leave me the hell alone.

M: Sure, but it makes you feel guilty and there's the run. You were made to feel guilty as a child and don't like it. You hate being made to feel that way and now you hate anything that does that to you, just like how those crazy poor people act. Yeah, you feel poor regardless of what you have.

S: Free abortions so they don't pass on their defective genes,

M: There genes are not so much defect as their negative attitudes are infective. The poor tend to produce folk with poor attitude.

S: free education so the smarter ones have a chance to escape the ghetto,

M: More than education is required. Live intervention for the parents.....

S: and drug counseling so something something.

M: I can make no sense out of this.

S: How do you feel about poor people?

That there but for the grace of God go I. Poverty is attitude and attitude is caught.


S 1 - don't help them

M: That is not the question. The question is what kind of help will help the poor. Giving poor people something is done to keep them alive physically. To really help the poor is to change attitude, the attitude of poverty.

You must not let the poor feel they are being helped and to do that you have go exchange help for something in return. The idea is to teach them that by acting they can help themselves. They feel worthless so you charge them for help to show them they have some small value, that they can earn something by work. The work can be quite symbolic if need be.


S: 2 - help them so they don't make my life worse

M: Why not, we will never be really happy anyway so long as others suffer.

3 - help them because you genuinely want to help them

M: It would be nice but it's not necessary. When you help others you help your self so helping others earns you your own self respect. Charity begins at home.

The problem with helping the poor is because we hate them because we are poor ourselves and we hate our own poverty. We were taught to hate ourselves. Not a good recipe for philanthropy but a prescription for a life of need need need.
 

sm625

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There are stupid rich and stupid poor. Plenty of each to go around. There are smart rich and smart poor. It may seem like poor are on average less smart, but no more than what can be accounted for by lack of resources. The more we try to "help" the poor, the more poor we make. War on poverty fails like war on drugs.

Get a bunch of dumb poor people together and get them pissed off, and you get a riot. Get a bunch of dumb rich people together and get them pissed off, and you get an iraq or afghanistan.
 

Moonbeam

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Thanks for admitting that you're clearly the racist one here

This is a bunch of horse shit. The only issue here is what you imagine when you imagine stereotypes and what you imagine is what you know personally.

The OP may not be a racist but if not he was incorrect in his conception of the stereotypes others can imagine, like the one MP pointed out. There's plenty of racism about and plenty of black ghettos, the product of racism.
 

Moonbeam

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There are stupid rich and stupid poor. Plenty of each to go around. There are smart rich and smart poor. It may seem like poor are on average less smart, but no more than what can be accounted for by lack of resources. The more we try to "help" the poor, the more poor we make. War on poverty fails like war on drugs.

Get a bunch of dumb poor people together and get them pissed off, and you get a riot. Get a bunch of dumb rich people together and get them pissed off, and you get an iraq or afghanistan.

Well well well, not this is very interesting.
 

blackangst1

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I was poor once. Then I came to ATOT and now I clear 7-figures, drive my Ferrari and ride people's asses in the passing lane and get pissed at them, and have no less than THREE size 0 supermodels who don't have pointy elbows draped across my arms at any given time.

Thanks ATOT! :thumbsup:

And you grew to 9" Im sure. ;)
 

xj0hnx

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LOL. Corn.

Let me point out to you that most of that corn is either WHITE or YELLOW, and it's all wrapped up in the GREEN stuff. That's right!

Now, look down. What do you see? That's right, it's the dirt! That dirt is BLACK and BROWN, and the YELLOW and WHITE corn is rising up and standing on the BLACK and the BROWN, and the YELLOW and the WHITE all wrapped up in the GREEN stuff!


:D


Yeah, you're gonna tell me that there's that decorative TOKEN corn that they pull out at Thanksgiving; that stuff that's all sorts of colors. But that's exactly it, right? TOKEN COLORED CORN.

:D :D :D

Now that shit is funny.
 

IGBT

Lifer
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I hate liberal social policies that assure a permanent poor underclass purposefully designed to assure big gov. liberal social rackets.
 

Moonbeam

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I hate liberal social policies that assure a permanent poor underclass purposefully designed to assure big gov. liberal social rackets.

Then you must love conservative business policies that assure a permanent upper class that funds Republican campaigns and thousands of pages of tax loop holes.
 

JS80

Lifer
Oct 24, 2005
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I don't hate poor people.

I hate poor people who think they are entitled to free money and other handouts because they are poor.

I especially hate those same poor people who are not appreciative of the help they get.

In other words, you hate 99% of poor people.
 
Dec 30, 2004
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I always advocate helping the poor with things like free education, free or subsidized birth control, free abortions, free drug counseling, etc. It's nice to help these people, but at the same time I really hate these bastards. I live somewhat close to the ghetto and my bus passes through the ghetto on the way to work and on the way home. They fit every stereotype imaginable. Scruffy looking? Yes. Sideways hat with shoes that don't fit properly? Check. That crazy look like they could kill someone at any moment? Check.

It seems like the only reason I want to help these people is so they leave me the hell alone. Free abortions so they don't pass on their defective genes, free education so the smarter ones have a chance to escape the ghetto, and drug counseling so something something.

How do you feel about poor people?
1 - don't help them
2 - help them so they don't make my life worse
3 - help them because you genuinely want to help them

help them because you won the ovarian lottery and were born into a good home, and are no better than them, only better off
 
Dec 30, 2004
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I donate to a program that helps the working poor. Have a paycheck? Then you can get your family fed when the money runs out at the end of the month. It seems like the ideal way to help people that the system is keeping down (by not paying a living wage) and NOT helping those who just want to mooch (ie those who won't work for a living). Well, it does provide showers and phones for the homeless so they can go on interviews, but at least that is helping them get back to work rather than just giving them free stuff.

I'd like to volunteer too, but for now the timing is a bit akward. It is hard to have a meal prepared for 200 people at 5:30 pm during the week when I have a job myself and have to work until 5 pm. But, I'll donate enough each month to feed that many people a meal.

what program is this? I would like to get behind something similar.