Reply #32: Yes, you call our region an "armpit" and "JOKlohoma"... [View All]

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My intention was to comment that this is a boon to a really BROAD swath of working people here in Missouri and to clarify your ignorant accusation by pointing out there ARE large numbers of people in poverty here where I live.

What do you have against the poor, BTW? I was raised in Appalachia, east Tennessee. I don't see it as a stigma, but rather a symptom of poor opportunities and lately of red-state economic policies that tend to expand the problem and drive class division, not to mention a consumerist society that erodes wages and community.

My argument is also backed up by evidence, compassion and reason.

I felt I had to explain myself because I was accused of being a bigot, then an outsider and some sort of regional elitist for being from California.

Looking over your posts on DU, I see you have no problem bad mouthing the region with slurs like "armpit of the bible belt" and JOKlohoma in your own posts.

You are simply ignorant, hateful and wrong in this case.

Most of Missouri will qualify is all I said. That includes my family, BTW. You do understand that I said nothing about POVERTY. Poverty is in the quote from the story. That is your own internal demon. This bill pegs the number at FOUR TIMES poverty. Most people will be above the poverty line.

Anything else you have chosen to add to this, including your apparent disdain for outsiders comes from you. You saw the word poverty and freaked out slinging a baseless attack my way.

It makes me wonder what trauma you must have been through over the last few years to leave you so bitter. You should still apologize, but since you are incapable and your posts are largely fueled by your own internal misconceptions and misery, welcome to my ignore list.

You are the first and only person on it and I've been at DU since the beginning, before we had ignore lists. You are the first person I've ever seen who was so pig headed they couldn't realize their mistake and apologize. We usually get a better class of people around here.

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