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U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 50 Years

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Re: U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 50 Years

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If someone wants you to listen, it is self-evident that they want your help Help? Or compliance?

If you're trying to suggest something, feel free to come out and say it rather than obliquely alluding to some vague conspiracy.

Here's a reminder that you obliquely asked another commenter what "planted" an idea into their head. I'm not sure why you would demand other people talk to you in the way you want to be talked, especially when you just did this.

Re: U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 50 Years

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This is a surreal reversal of the situation. Upper-class whites are obsessed with race, especially in the last few years. Every news story - and the news comes from the upper whites - gets twisted into something about race, as in this case. Every tech company, every Hollywood studio, every academic institution are vibrating with energy to find and fight racism; overflowing with programs and policies about race. Hell,…

Yes, upper class are obsessed with race and are enacting superficial policies that do little to help people who really need it. They are content to do things that make it appear to be addressing a problem but not doing things that would actually address those problems. For instance, upper class people rarely advocate for changing the way k-12 schools are funded. They rarely advocate for increasing the pay and resourc…

Fair enough, but since about the 90's I don't recall much in the news about "out of control black kids terrorizing whites".

COPS isn't even on the air any more, you know.

These days it's pretty much wall-to-wall "out of control white cops terrorizing black kids". There was a big thing about it last year, as you recall.

Before that there was a thing about "out of control white kids terrorizing a native elder" which turned out to be a total lie as well.

Trying to think of any major news story about "out of control black kids terrorizing whites" in any recent decade. Last I know is the Central Park jogger case from the 1980's.

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