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schmear happens Donating Member (42 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 01:49 PM
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3. If Nadya was an inner city single mom with 6 kids by different fathers and was on welfare,
I'll bet the majority of people on here would support her. Why? I mean, let's face it--if you support that behavior (even if the mom made the kids the "old-fashioned way"), you are basically saying that she is too stoopid to know better.

The truth is, there are people motivated by the $$$$ that multiple kids brings because somewhere inside they don't feel like they can do anything else BUT make kids and collect the meager dollars. They may also have the same emotional needs as Nadya. Why does Nadya get so much more scorn? Because she is a college graduate? Because her skin is too light?

(Interesting observation: when this story first broke, most DUers were sympathetic and accused naysayers of being prejudiced because Nadya's father is an Iraqi. They even said people were hating because her mom "spoke broken English," just assuming that she was also Middle Eastern. Well, as soon as it was learned that her mom was (it appears) American, then all bets were off! Why is that...?)
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