Reply #120: I don't understand your response

[elias7]

Numerous examples of what? Dismissing what? The fact that you have concluded I am privileged though you know nothing of me other than I said some here might consider me wealthy? I could similarly argue that you have still failed to address my core issue about the OP.

I have posed a valid question. I am not talking about feelings; rather, I am talking about unfair generalizations and stereotyping. If my concerns were about the lowest item on your list of priorities right now, why did you enter the thread to begin with?

If, for example, I were to start an OP stating: "Ever hang around any poor people? Ever notice they don't pay for anything? They go out for a nice dinner and the people they're with have to pick up the tab and have to be gracious about it. Ever see that happen? Can anyone else think of any situations where the poor get free or reduced pricing like this?" I provide no link, no real substantiation other than a couple of life anecdotes of how I have seen people on welfare get things for free that others have to pay for. I omit counterexamples of where poor people work hard and pay their fair share and more. Would this kind of post piss you off?

It would piss me off as much as this OP did. Primarily because it implies an inaccurate picture of those in poverty. Yet, that's exactly why the teabaggers garnered so much support. They created all sorts of erstwhile OP's like this one and got people pissed off at anyone getting anything for "free" or getting entitlements on their tax dollar. Totally misrepresenting reality, yet appealed to emotions of people hurt and angry. It is simply demagoguery, as this OP was. Are you saying we should act no differently?