Quote Originally Posted by goti71 View Post
I recently heard a new one: "ablist", meaning that you're an ablist if you so much as call someone an idiot (implying he isn't "able" like you). So yes, you'll soon have the "smart privilege" accusation being thrown around too (at least in the US).

There was a documentary about trailer trash Apalachians, though they didn't call them that (drug abuse, 20-year old mums with no teeth, etc.) and one of the families was feeding their baby pepsi instead of milk. They were actually filling up that baby bottle with pepsi!

Is pepsi cheaper than milk in the US?

Or is a box of eggs much more expensive than, say, a frozen pizza or an xxl menu at Burger King? or a bucket of chicken wings?

Fukin just boil an egg and a couple of spuds and you've got lunch. Or have some rice.






As for the documentary on white trash in the Appalachian Mountains.....yeah there's some pretty bad poverty there and there's certainly a heroin and meth epidemic there and there's certainly some lackluster education around there as well. Some people are dumb, some people are ignorant...for some folks it's a choice to live like an idiot, for others they are just born that way. The folks you're talking about in Appalachia are no different than the folks in the inner cities who can't read or write or hold jobs or be an adult properly.


Milk and Pepsi are roughly the same price but it's not about that it's about what people know and what they don't know and who they have helping them.