• @skisnow@lemmy.ca
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    02 days ago

    She has a saying “poor people have poor ways” which she thinks means that when your poor you work with what you have, I have told her it is an insult that means poor people are poor because of their actions and decisions.

    I think you could maybe use less time on the Internet. Social media has a nasty habit of telling everyone that everything they hear is a code for something else; spend too long reading that junk and it’ll convince you that everyone in the world is a secret bigot.

    • Norah (pup/it/she)
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      12 days ago

      Dogwhistles are real bestie. I think this says way more about you, than the person you’re replying to.

      • @skisnow@lemmy.ca
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        02 days ago

        What was described here clearly wasn’t an instance of one though. It was two different people reading a saying two different ways.

    • @1D10@lemmy.world
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      02 days ago

      Lol, considering I heard it all the time growing up in the 80s you might be a bit off on your assessment.

      I grew up in a middle class suburb where the it was used as an insult kinda like " poor people are poor because they are stupid"

      She grew up in the Ozarks and they used it more as a " we got ways to make do"