โฒ 82 โผ What have you heard people say that screams "I have lived my life in a Westernised bubble and have no idea how the world is" ? (lemmy.ml) submitted 11 months ago by frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml 156 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[โ] pineapple@lemmy.ml 57 points 11 months ago (1 child) "If your poor its because you didn't try hard enough" permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [โ] Ziggurat@jlai.lu 19 points 11 months ago (2 children) Even in the west that one doesn't stand. We have systemic unemployment and tons of hard working family owned business lost everything when Amazon took their market share permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [โ] ms_lane@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago Yeah that one is less a 'westernism' and more a '1%er-ism' permalink fedilink source parent [โ] agegamon@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago I agree that's the reality here, but that doesn't mean people will acknowledge it. I mean... look at what people who are willfully ignorant and/or intentionally hateful have done to the west. They're still saying shit like "better work harder, scrub" even though that's complete bullshit and applies just as much to them as anyone else. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] Ziggurat@jlai.lu 19 points 11 months ago (2 children) Even in the west that one doesn't stand. We have systemic unemployment and tons of hard working family owned business lost everything when Amazon took their market share permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [โ] ms_lane@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago Yeah that one is less a 'westernism' and more a '1%er-ism' permalink fedilink source parent [โ] agegamon@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago I agree that's the reality here, but that doesn't mean people will acknowledge it. I mean... look at what people who are willfully ignorant and/or intentionally hateful have done to the west. They're still saying shit like "better work harder, scrub" even though that's complete bullshit and applies just as much to them as anyone else. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] ms_lane@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago Yeah that one is less a 'westernism' and more a '1%er-ism' permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] agegamon@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago I agree that's the reality here, but that doesn't mean people will acknowledge it. I mean... look at what people who are willfully ignorant and/or intentionally hateful have done to the west. They're still saying shit like "better work harder, scrub" even though that's complete bullshit and applies just as much to them as anyone else. permalink fedilink source parent