is poor shaming britains new favourite bloodsport?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/03/blame-poor-poverty-barbara-ellen
hmmm ... interesting
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Make the aspiring middle hate the poor
make the poor hate the immigrants
make the immigrants insular
ad infinum
Status quo remains, been the same the world over since year dot.
No.
is jeremy kyle to blame
hun
you're all guilty
bit rich coming from you, Mr why can't the poor stop taking drugs, killing people, being social parasites and ordering pizza during the day
I think you'll find I only started one of those threads
and I have no idea how poor my downstairs neighbours are
You're not a real man until you've had blood on your sword
well I can adopt a viewpoint
where a lot of humans could be seen as pointless/parasitic, but that would be sociopathic
During a potential triple dip recession an atmosphere is created
where the unemployed and those on benefits are easy to dislike. I'm sure that there are shitloads of scum that are just playing the system. There are also loads of hard working but low waged individuals that are on benefits too who aren't playing the system. Not all Tories are evil and not everyone left of centre are saints. Shaming Britain's poor ISN'T the new bloodsport. Barbara Ellen just wants you to think that.
so what are you saying?
everything's alright?
non-story?
No one's to blame?
what?
Yeah. Sorry. I was a bit drunk when I wrote my post.
I think it's a non-story. The poor and those on benefits are scapegoated and blamed when the economy is good as well as bad. Very often in a right-leaning newspaper you'd have an article of job losses and spending cuts and then there's a feature on someone on benefits that's claimed a lot of money. That's what the right-leaning press do and it's dull. What Barbara Ellen's feature was, was the opposite and equally dull. So, overall it's a non-story.
Make poverty history