@ibsvlfjhldk@prettycritical@danitegon “im just a girl in the world” your self-infantilization is a discredit to yourself, womankind, and the society you live in. you need to grow up NOW.
@dickexpert@gothichijabi he’s blocked me, but I do agree with him on one point: sitting around debating about this sort of thing helps no one. we started this with a discussion of Appalachian miners, so here’s a story about villagers in jharkhand facing very similar issues.
https://t.co/ltzt95Awuy
@commoncentaury@dickexpert@gothichijabi yes, and there is not a single issue that the impoverished there face that doesn’t exist magnified in India! have you ever been to a rural town there? i don’t want to start posting photos, but when you start digging, it becomes clear its not remotely comparable
@commoncentaury@dickexpert@gothichijabi i volunteer with homeless shelters in New York City, and the people we support face terrible conditions, but they’re doing better than their counterparts in Mumbai by every conceivable metric, plus some that don’t exist here (eg caste).
@commoncentaury@dickexpert@gothichijabi if you havent been to a place like india or brazil or ghana you cannot comprehend how extreme extreme poverty can get. i dont want it to overshadow efforts to ease poverty in the US, but its really not comparable and most Americans will never be able to understand that
@commoncentaury@dickexpert@gothichijabi for the most part poverty in the us is something that people end up in as a result of situational failings, which is terrible. But in india entire generations are born, grow up, and die without ever having access to electricity, running water, education, or clean food.
@commoncentaury@dickexpert@gothichijabi speaking from my experience as an Indian, the extremely impoverished live either in slums of huge cities or in rural villages, with no running water or electricity within miles of where they live. in USA those types of slums are nonexistent, in India that’s life for 70 million!
@commoncentaury@dickexpert@gothichijabi its a materially different experience. in the United States, being homeless means you still have access to the American built infrastructure, which is not great, is still more to rely on: a functioning power grid, food pantries, public libraries. none of those exist in india e.g.