Reply #205: Ok, minavasht, you need to read this data (provided) and then SHUT THE HELL UP.

[Exiled in America]

I really don't mind discussion, and I regularly have dialogue with folks who have much different points of view than I do.

But what I can not and will not abide are people who have no clue what they are talking about, who are ignorant, ill-informed, and speaking mostly from prejudice, arrogance and other emotion, not reason.

What makes me so angry and sad are people who demonstrate attitudes like yours, because it is little more than allowing their inner Archie Bunker rant and trump their reason. It also makes my heart break so much is that someone like you who has chosen to remain so ignorant about concepts like privilege and inequality in America. You've chosen to foster a sense of arrogant entitlement and become a "miser" in the truest sense of the word - devoid of mercy, unable to empathize with the experiences of others, incapable for feeling a shared sense of responsibility to a community of others, and so on.

Your attitude is borderline sociopath. That's something I point out about all people who have a very militant and ultra-conservative attitude when it comes to inequality and poverty in America.

But you know what is worst about it? It is the fact that you are so horribly, tragically, infuriatingly mistaken and ignorant - and PROVABLY SO!

READ:
Life on the Mississippi: East St. Louis, Illinois
http://www.mediafire.com/?8mywwyjlmqd

America's Econnomic System Depends on Inequality
http://www.mediafire.com/?3m2z4dxuwmy


There are other factors that contribute to poverty. Poverty is not always a choice, and wealth is not always earned.