[RileyKyeden]

Context. cd_cd is probably not talking about welfare beneficiaries in South American barrios, and neither am I. The article this thread is about focuses on a US phenomenon.

You know nothing of my life, as I know nothing of your life. Do not presume to know me because of where I live. I only know your attitude as expressed here in your comments, and that attitude is awful.

Given context, I assumed you were yet another US conservative with a bad attitude about poor people because he saw a mother with junk food in her shopping cart once.

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My assumption about your assumptions about me were correct.

My assumption about where you live was correct.

I don't presume to know you as a person, but I am rather confident about what some of your beliefs are from what you've said and where you've said it. There's a reason why your government has a hard-on for the world's metadata.

And for someone that speaks for the world as being one and the same for everyone, it is surprising how quickly you attribute the findings of the article as only applicable to human beings living in the US (even if the study was on the US). What is inherently "american" in this behavior that limits it to your country's borders? And what makes poor people in the US so different from poor/lower middle class people from over here, that they could not possibly be using the same manipulative tactics?

It is funny, because one of the things I like about american rap music is how often black american rappers express in their lyrics about how these same abuses that happen over here, affect their communities. Yet you find an alien concept in what I'm telling you.

Maybe instead of pointing fingers about attitudes, you should try lending an ear to your own less-privileged neighbors if you want to know the difference between the theory of what you preach, and how it actually affects them.

[dang]

We have a lot of respect for the different backgrounds people come from when posting to HN, and yours sounds extraordinary. Still, you've gone way off-topic and way into incivility here, and the site guidelines don't allow that.

Mutual misunderstanding seems to have gotten in the way, and when that happens both sides need to take a step back and consider how to get clearer—and be more respectful, not less. Please do that when commenting here.

[RileyKyeden]

I...am not even going to go through and read all that. You either have me confused with someone else, or you're on so many levels of prejudging that you aren't actually talking to me. This whole thing is bizarre.