• DrownedRats@lemmy.world
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    It may even include you one day. Social safety nets benefit both those already in them, and anyone that may eventually need them.

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    these are people who fantasize about the 1940s and 1950s. and have devils advocates and admirerers of the people who used to treat mentally handicapped and crippled people like things to be culled. I think this just gives the Nazis more ammo. not less

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    Oh you mean the useless eaters? They’re taking good jobs from hardworking abled Americans. /s

    But seriously, disability rights are not as uncontroversial as she thinks.

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    Thats why when talking to conservatives you gotta target them, like if a pregant womans trying to make you agree with her on conservative points say hell yeah cant wait for them to get rid of all these pregnant woman that get paid for not working and just pop out babies to avoid work, if they’re old make sure you talk about how you hope they get rid of social security, etc. Fully commit especially when they try to act like it should be kept, call them libreral snowflakes.

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      the only time their brain processes anything is when it effects them so hold up a mirror basically

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    Was this supposed to convince anybody?

    A lot of these Republicans secretly hate that their disabled neighbor gets government assistance. They hate having to deal with the bagger with down syndrome, or the autistic barista. They think their pregnant friend should be married, a stay-at-home-mom, and it should be her husband making the money. They don’t want everybody to have an equal opportunity, they only want “people who deserve it” to have an opportunity. Where, of course, “people who deserve it” is conservative straight white men from rural areas, or whatever.

    Honestly, how could you watch nearly 10 years of hateful rhetoric and think “oh, I just need to explain DEI better, then they’ll support it!”

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      Upvotes for correctness. But don’t forget the centrists.

      The people you describe are a minority. And they convinced the centrists that DEI is just rich people keeping out working class people from top jobs.

      These same centrists who did vote for Obama, did support abortion rights and marriage equality, just not as strongly as the left.

      It all boils down to taking back the narrative and OP is trying to do that.

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      It does point out how much I and others will miss those Autistic SOBs that are actual madlads at their jobs.

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    Why do you people think talking will help? You are so far past the point of honest discussion it’s mind-blowing.

    THERE IS NO EUREKA MOMENT COMING FROM RHETORIC.

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      As far as I can tell, from their prospective DEI is harmful made-up psychobabble that must be eradicated at all costs, unless it’s for veterans with PTSD or January 6th rioters who deserve a second chance. The only moral DEI is MY DEI, I guess.

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          people who got drafted, fought, and died in a war are suckers. sucks to be them ~ President of the USA

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          Yeah, they definitely don’t like veterans with PTSD. They like veterans who work for the police department and try to use their military / police status to insist on discounts at McDonald’s.

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      Most straight white males are just as pedon class as the rest of us…

      JFC

      Fight the class war, why are you still doing this culture war trash?

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        Because they’re attacking a part of our group and we need to defend our group.

        This isn’t attacking disabled minorities. This is attacking workers, and as workers we must fight back.

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            That doesn’t make the policy or law bad. Cops are bastards, but they enforce laws that are good for people too. HR are the same.

            The police toy drive doesn’t make cops good, but it doesn’t make the toy drive bad.

            DEI policies are just metrics to check if you’re accidentally being unfair, and trying to fix it. That doesn’t make HR good. It doesn’t make fairness bad.

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              The state and courts should enforce the laws they created. I know they don’t but I also know that HR does not, and DEI wagie won’t either.

              So i don’t need another layer of grifters. They are not a solution. The solution is forcing the state and courts to enforce the laws.

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    Hello I have a lot of those. I haven’t had a job in 10 years because nobody will hire me because I’m unable to “pass” as able bodied neurotypical. I require a service dog with me.

    I’m pretty much fucked where I live as I’m in a heavy republican state.

    Let’s see how long it takes for my public housing, medical and food stamps are taken away.

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    What they want is to go back to no equity in government. They want to go back to being able to break up communities with zoning, redlining, and physical roads. They want to put their factories that no longer have environmental regulations into communities that can’t complain.

    In the first 20 years of the highway administration, 1 million people were displaced. Economic centers that developed and began to empower the “wrong” communities were slated for “highway improvements”, removing buildings and disrupting economic viability. In some cases towns no longer existed or completely changed in demographics.

    Equity means that everyone is considered for the impact of these kinds of “development” programs. No equity means they get to do what ever they want, as long as it isn’t in their back yard.

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    It also includes type I and type II diabetes too so remember that when filling out those self identification forms

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    Optimistic to believe that Republicans care about the disabled or differently abled. Them getting caught in the crossfire is a feature, not a bug.

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    nOoO dOnT cArE cUz MuH eGgz R xPeNsIv!!!

    How about the food prices now? Surely now pres. Orange is elected food never has been cheaper, right? Right?

    God I’m so glad I don’t live in that hell hole but still I have to read about how it gets worse. every. single. day.