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Old 11-27-10, 11:36 AM   #7
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Yeah, I think this "we must hate rich people for being rich" attitude that some 'social justice advocates' take is really stupid. I dislike the general attitude to wealth that many rich people take, but I wouldn't paint them with such a uniform brush. There are good and bad influences everywhere, and by all means those who have business initiative and work ethic don't deserve to be called insensitive or dangerous any more than the poor in general deserve being called lazy. There are good and bad influences in all social classes, and honestly while you can't choose where you're born, parenting can make a huge differences to what influences their children take away from their upbringing with them, wherever they end up socially. By the same token, you can blame poor minority populations' cultures for keeping their kids dumb, violent gangster material - just that this would be less politically correct and today is not said as much. Granted, it is actually no more true than the 'evil rich' stereotype - things are a lot more complex than that. But I think inciting division and class warfare, from either side of the spectrum, is an absolutely stupid thing.
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