"In 2023, three million people in the UK appealed to food banks for food relief. That's one in twenty of the population who did not have enough to eat for some part of last year... In the United States, the world's richest nation, the number of people visiting food banks last year hit 26 million, one American in 13."
Sobering statistics.
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GingerAntics But in the states, that‘s a moral failing… of the people who need the aid. The people who caused the need are saints and heroes (and getting massive tax breaks). 4mo
Bookwomble @GingerAntics That's exactly the conservative view here, also. Dickens wrote about conceptions of the deserving and undeserving poor 200 years ago, and we see constantly that those attitudes prevail in the ruling classes, though their idea of 'deserving' seems to shrink. Thatcher went on record saying that the only reason you could be poor in our society was "psychological defect": no insight into how capitalism y its nature engenders poverty. 4mo
GingerAntics @Bookwomble I knew I didn‘t like Thatcher, but wow that‘s even worse than I expected. Was the following sentence of her statement that people with “psychological defect” shouldn‘t be allowed to procreate? What about all the people with psychological defect that were never diagnosed or weren‘t diagnosed until adulthood? I suppose those were fake diagnoses. 🙄 So disgusting. 4mo
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Bookwomble @GingerAntics I need to make a correction: she used the phrase \“personality defect\“, not \“psychological defect\“. It was from an interview she gave to a Christian publication when asked about the persistence of poverty, to which she replied that in a developed Western country, with all its advantages and opportunities, the only conclusion you can come to about people living in poverty is that it\'s due to their own \“personality defect\“. (edited) 4mo
Bookwomble https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10008783-nowadays-there-really-is-no-primary-po... 4mo
GingerAntics @Bookwomble she sure was good at victim blaming! 4mo