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blarghly@lemmy.world 23 hours agoI mean, it’s rather gauche. Plenty here are happy to make fun of, say, rich people’s problems with social relationships, white people’s problems feeling comfortable talking about race, or men’s dating problems. And yet the disparity in privilege between these people and the average lemming is trounced by the disparity between a peasant farmer in a developing nation and the average lemming.
It seems the problems of the privileged are only reasonable to talk about when those problems relate to being a potentially-remote office worker in a developed nation. Strange that this is a disproportionately represented population here on Lemmy…
julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Nah this is just whataboutism. We all agree that the highest severity issues are access to heathcare/nutrition/sanitation/education in developing countries or among the homeless etc. That doesn’t mean we are suddenly not allowed to talk about anything else.
Do you do this in real life? Colleague: “hey did you catch the game this weekend, boy I hate being a jets fan” Blarghly: “that’s rather gauche, don’t you know there’s major food insecurity in sudan”
It has the intellectual weight of a parent trying to cajole their toddler into eating.