'When you see your grandma coming through the door, your great-aunt, that hits home and you realize everybody is affected,' the executive director of the West Island Mission said.
Maybe if your generation hadn’t repeatedly voted for parties that gutted our social safety net through continuous austerity measures to encourage private enterprise, you wouldn’t be in this situation, Ginette.
Temper your condescension with the awareness that you have no fucking idea how Ginette spent her life voting. Imagine being a lifelong NDP supporter struggling in your twilight years only to be met with the pitiless snark of some mellenial edgelord who presumes to know you just by your age.
The way some people in this thread are responding to the issue of elder poverty is so nasty. “Well they should have just bought a house when they were younger and since they’re old it’s probably their own fault anyway” is some shit I’d expect to see out of conservatives. There are SO many reasons an elderly person may be living in poverty, and none of them mean they don’t deserve secure housing and food.
That’s not the message I was trying to convey at all.
What I was saying is, the boomer generation, could have built a society where everyone could have had plenty. We had tax rules in place that taxed the rich and the companies and that money could be used for financing a whole safety net and also for big projects that made quality of life better. But instead they enabled conservative and neo liberal parties to completely do the opposite. And now we live in a society where everybody is having a hard time accessing basic needs like food and shelter.
It’s the boomer generation that voted for Mulroney, Reagan, Thatcher, etc. Who brought us trickle down economics.
Right, but just got the sake of argument, i would guess a lifelong NDP supporter having a hard time to make ends meet in retirement would know exactly why…
I can GUARANTEE you that the lady in this article, Maria Pagliuca, a Québec anglophone, has always voted for the Québec Liberal party her whole life. The same party responsible for the piss poor public services that we have today. You can blame the CAQ all you want but they basically kept the status quo on the previous government’s policies.
When the prejudice is so engrained that you can’t even form an argument against an anonymous person because your entire worldview revolves around your prejudices.
Do you remember when Jagmeet wasn’t the leader of the NDP, and there was that woman yelling at him about him being Muslim? He’s not, he’s Sikh. When he was asked later why he didn’t just say “I’m not Muslim though”
"I chose not to answer the questions asked because I didn’t accept the premise.
“Many people have commented that I could have just said I’m not Muslim. In fact, many have clarified that I’m actually Sikh,” Singh explained in a statement.
“While I’m proud of who I am, I purposely didn’t go down that road because it suggests their hate would be OK if I was Muslim.”
I also refuse to entertain any line of questioning based on the premise that it’s ok to judge individual people who are elderly and being let down society based on the language they speak or the province that they’re in. It’s disgusting.
That’s a fair point. Think about the pitiless snark of boomers who pretend to know us millenials by our age too. Housing isn’t expensive, you just are lazy and eat too much avocado toast!
That’s exactly right. We’ve been on the other end of this. We’re still on the other end of this.
Over my life, I’ve met many people who have been systemically oppressed. It’s like they’re being held to the ground, a boot on their neck.
Most of them just dream of a world where they can be free of that oppression… But for some people… Their minds grow diseased, and they instead of dreaming of a world free from oppression they dream of one day becoming the boot.
Maybe if your generation hadn’t repeatedly voted for parties that gutted our social safety net through continuous austerity measures to encourage private enterprise, you wouldn’t be in this situation, Ginette.
Temper your condescension with the awareness that you have no fucking idea how Ginette spent her life voting. Imagine being a lifelong NDP supporter struggling in your twilight years only to be met with the pitiless snark of some mellenial edgelord who presumes to know you just by your age.
The way some people in this thread are responding to the issue of elder poverty is so nasty. “Well they should have just bought a house when they were younger and since they’re old it’s probably their own fault anyway” is some shit I’d expect to see out of conservatives. There are SO many reasons an elderly person may be living in poverty, and none of them mean they don’t deserve secure housing and food.
That’s not the message I was trying to convey at all.
What I was saying is, the boomer generation, could have built a society where everyone could have had plenty. We had tax rules in place that taxed the rich and the companies and that money could be used for financing a whole safety net and also for big projects that made quality of life better. But instead they enabled conservative and neo liberal parties to completely do the opposite. And now we live in a society where everybody is having a hard time accessing basic needs like food and shelter.
It’s the boomer generation that voted for Mulroney, Reagan, Thatcher, etc. Who brought us trickle down economics.
Right, but just got the sake of argument, i would guess a lifelong NDP supporter having a hard time to make ends meet in retirement would know exactly why…
I can GUARANTEE you that the lady in this article, Maria Pagliuca, a Québec anglophone, has always voted for the Québec Liberal party her whole life. The same party responsible for the piss poor public services that we have today. You can blame the CAQ all you want but they basically kept the status quo on the previous government’s policies.
I sincerely hope that you never endure the predjudices that you yourself are guilty of eagerly holding towards others.
Where are you from? What do you know about Québec politics? Real question.
When the prejudice is so engrained that you can’t even form an argument against an anonymous person because your entire worldview revolves around your prejudices.
Do you remember when Jagmeet wasn’t the leader of the NDP, and there was that woman yelling at him about him being Muslim? He’s not, he’s Sikh. When he was asked later why he didn’t just say “I’m not Muslim though”
I also refuse to entertain any line of questioning based on the premise that it’s ok to judge individual people who are elderly and being let down society based on the language they speak or the province that they’re in. It’s disgusting.
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That’s a fair point. Think about the pitiless snark of boomers who pretend to know us millenials by our age too. Housing isn’t expensive, you just are lazy and eat too much avocado toast!
That’s exactly right. We’ve been on the other end of this. We’re still on the other end of this.
Over my life, I’ve met many people who have been systemically oppressed. It’s like they’re being held to the ground, a boot on their neck.
Most of them just dream of a world where they can be free of that oppression… But for some people… Their minds grow diseased, and they instead of dreaming of a world free from oppression they dream of one day becoming the boot.
Don’t be the boot!