Reply #221: Well, sure

[a2liberal]

Yes, I have been lucky enough to be relatively privileged/middle class. Call me an "ivory tower liberal" if you must. FWIW I struggle to make ends meet too, but I understand that to the truly poor me saying that sounds just like the guy making 400k saying he struggles sounds to me.

That doesn't change the fact that I don't like violence. I don't think the solution to the poor suffering from violence is to bring violence to the rich. How many people have considered that 1.) The people who put up those signs are almost certainly not in the 1% and 2.) They may even be sympathizers trying to provide the contrast. There are plenty of middle class (yes, relatively privileged, but not super-rich) people who work in the banking/trading industries... I almost ended up there myself. Take a moment to imagine yourself as a middle class class person who landed a software job at a bank after college, but are still a liberal person. Maybe you didn't have a choice because the job market is crappy for everyone but the truly rich. Don't you think that this is something you might do in the spirit of actually supporting the protests and not as an intentional provocation? I think if anything, the people who put this up are guilty of not thinking things through, and not of being genuinely mean. Yes I know it's not a laughing matter but people make jokes about things all the time that they realize in retrospect were probably a stupid idea.