[Arlo previously] Social Darwinism, Platt's position, is that "poverty" is nature's way of weeding out the riff-raff. The poor are simply our nation's lazy, slothful vermin, so letting them die off makes the nation better.
[Platt] Deliberate lie. Evil. [Arlo] I almost wish I was lying. The "lie" here is for you to deny it. You have tied "value" to "wealth" so many times, condemned the "poor" as being simply too stupid or lazy to get a job in our Great Land O' Opportunity, and reincarnated Marie Antionette when you suggested that those suffering under poverty in West Virginia should simply "move somewhere else and get a job" lest they deserve to die off with no loss to our Greatest Nation. But of course the Pee Wee Maneuver, attempting to deflect the evil of your own rhetorical tactics back on others who point it out, is _the_ talk-radio way. Which you keep proving again and again and again. moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
