Reply #80: My blindness?

[elias7]

The OP made a "Did'ja ever notice" post with no references or links to any event. Just stated an unfounded opinion about people with money that demonstrates a closed mind. Your defense of the OP demonstrates as much blindness.

If you want to throw a "let's trash the rich" party, please do it somewhere else. There's plenty of well-off, rich, or even wealthy people on this board who work as hard as you, give as much of themselves as you do, and even vote against their financial interests. You falsely equate money with privilege. You also link suffering with the lack of money, and link money with the lack of suffering. Both fallacious. You don't know me personally, nor anyone else here personally (there may be exceptions).

When you say, "The first priority must always be the tender feelings of the man who has never raped a woman or the white person who claims to be non-racist", you're misstating people's objections. People like me are just cautioning against furthering stereotypes, like all men are assholes, or all cops are assholes, or all republicans are assholes, or all rich people are assholes. I don't disagree that many rich people have oodles of privilege and are blind to it, but that are many DU that you would call rich and most if not all of us are certainly not blind to it.

My showing up to as you say "scold" the OP does show my blindness-- I use to believe that people on DU could see both sides of an issue, could appreciate that stereotyping and judgmental thinking obfuscate real discourse. You're using your suffering as social cachet in this setting, as if that trumps any discussion that disagrees with the OP. That is truly poor. That's why you should want to trade places with me, not because I have some money.