That is an assumption on your part. Of course nothing is perfect, but the way things are really have no need for this asinine crap. People need to grow up not create rules that protect special snow-flakes with the mental and emotional strength of a wet paper bag.
Well, the use of the word "seem" would make this an assumption, yes. That's pretty clear. Tanks for confirming it, I guess?
As four your wholesale lack of understanding of people with different experiences than you, that, frankly, is on you. If you lack the empathy to understand what it's like to live under systemic discrimination, that is your problem, and not valid whatsoever as an argument against changing demonstrably discriminatory systems.
And, as
@R-T-B stated above, what you're doing there is essentially using derogatory language to dismiss legitimate concerns that you don't like. You're avoiding the issue at hand rather than discussing it, which is not only a cop-out, but it shows something of your character. To me, it doesn't look pretty. Not to mention that you're
both individualizing blame for a systemic failure (by saying it's the responsibility of individuals to "grow up")
and victim-blaming (saying it's the people who object who are at fault rather than the people behaving in offensive ways)
at the same time. Sheesh. Your thinking reeks of unchecked and unrecognized privilege. Can't say I know much about you, but some introspection seems to be in or
Same goes for the midwest. The media would convince you we are all russian loving nazi country bumpkins with the IQ of a potato.
Meanwhile, in the real world here in flyover country, people great each other with friendly gestures every morning, people seem generally happy going about their business, and the crazy political leanings and SJW rhetoric all seam like a late night comedy. Out here, you just get your job done, get paid, and go hang out with your friends after work. Our politicians are far more moderate because I'm in a swing state, where they cant rely on a voting block to keep them there forever. Young people can afford to buy houses and raise families. Communities have their fairs, people know each-other, and there is a sense of community.
There is absolutely something to this, but on the other hand these communities are the same ones that LGBTQI people flee from in droves (not to mention where they're beaten, bullied, mistreated and discriminated against), where low-level racism is often left to fester, and where the friendliness and welcoming attitude is strictly limited to people that they "like the look of". While this is of course not the majority of this reality, you can't deny it's there.
I grew up poor, extremely so, a lot of my family is still poor as are whole communities like them. I have been homeless, gone hungry, no money at all. Hell I got divorced, moved two states away from everyone I knew as a single full time father of two kids.
How and why am I more successful now? I must have screwed someone. Or maybe I stopped worrying about buying stupid shit like new electronic gadgets constantly, cut out unnecessary things like cable, made better choices. But I probably just fucked over poor people......cause reasons.
So you made some choices, and your life improved. That's great, and I'm truly happy for you. However, you are to a certain extent confusing correlation with causation. While I of course don't know your circumstances or story, it sounds like a) relatively few bad things happened to you after making this move (say, a landlord kicking you out making getting to work impossible, or one of the other million imminent dangers of poor life) and b) you've had the luck to reach a workable mix of fortitude, conviction, manageable stress levels and external motivation (to mention just a few of the relevant factors) to not fall into depression or other natural responses to living in desperation. Some of this is no doubt your own doing, just as some of it is luck, chance, and simply being in the right place at the right time with the right mindset.
Again: poverty precludes long-term planning and "rational" decision-making due to the extreme stress it places on people living in it. You seem to have managed to break this cycle, so you're one of the exceptions, but those are - and will always be - few. Setting up society to help and care for those in need rather than leaving them to fend for themselves and trust in chance is the only rational, empathetic, reasonable and logical response to this. Judging from the rest of your post it doesn't sound like you fundamentally disagree with this, but you could do with realizing that not everyone in similar positions to yours get to be as lucky as you.
