Comments on: Propriety among the lumpenproletariat http://blogging.la/2009/03/06/propriety-among-the-lumpenproletariat/ Lizard people dude. Seriously. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:54:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Matt Mason http://blogging.la/2009/03/06/propriety-among-the-lumpenproletariat/comment-page-1/#comment-56836 Matt Mason Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:57:01 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/?p=22382#comment-56836 Interesting and thought-provoking. Coincidentally, a day or two ago, right wingers had a fit when Michelle Obama went to a soup kitchen to serve food and someone snapped a picture of one of the food recipients using a cell phone camera to snap a picture of Michelle. Apparently, the complainers thought that people rich enough to have cell phones don't need assistance with their food budget. It was the equivalent of Ronald Reagan's anecdote about the welfare queen driving the Cadillac, and is used to tar a whole class of people and to denigrate welfare programs at the same time. It could be that someone donated the cell phone or the laptop. It could be that this is the person's last valuable possession before they became destitute. We wouldn't know unless we asked. Interesting and thought-provoking. Coincidentally, a day or two ago, right wingers had a fit when Michelle Obama went to a soup kitchen to serve food and someone snapped a picture of one of the food recipients using a cell phone camera to snap a picture of Michelle. Apparently, the complainers thought that people rich enough to have cell phones don’t need assistance with their food budget. It was the equivalent of Ronald Reagan’s anecdote about the welfare queen driving the Cadillac, and is used to tar a whole class of people and to denigrate welfare programs at the same time.

It could be that someone donated the cell phone or the laptop. It could be that this is the person’s last valuable possession before they became destitute. We wouldn’t know unless we asked.

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