[Vision2020] Courtney, WalMart and the poor

[keely emerinemix]

Once again, I find inspiration, if not revulsion, in Dale Courtney's blog.  
This time our sage blogmeister has quoted extensively from the pro-Wal-Mart 
forces, and while some of the arguments are the same-old, same-old, one in 
particular is downright sickening.

It seems that those of us who are identified as "liberals," either by 
ourselves or others, don't want Wal-Mart around because of our animosity 
toward the poor.  Liberals hate the poor, asserts the blogmeister, and so we 
hate places "they" might congregate.

Yep, Dale and his buddies have nailed it -- rather than objecting to 
Wal-Mart because the company exploits the poor and contributes to the 
failure of small businesses and the breakdown of community, we libs hate 
Wal-Mart because poor people shop there.   We evidently don't like shopping 
around poor people, who may, we learn, be overweight, shabbily dressed, and 
uncouth.  It seems we prefer to shop where our fellow shoppers and sales 
clerks are snappily dressed, educated, and slim.  And, just for good 
measure, our disdain for the poor extends to wanting to deny them the 
$2300-plus a year the Wallies insist poor families save by shopping at Cheap 
Plastic Nirvana.  Evidently at our last liberal get-together, we 
progressives all conspired to make sure that poor people spend too much on 
food storage containers, corn flakes, and pocket T-shirts -- and thus was 
born our opposition to a Moscow Wal-Mart Supercenter.

Dale, please indulge me for a moment:  Bullshit.

Your affirmation and repetition of such divisive, stupid, and calloused 
remarks requires a stronger response, but I'll stop there.  I sometimes 
wonder if you even believe the things you say, and I hesitate to dignify 
your comments with a response, but this time you've scraped the bottom of 
the rhetorical barrel AND shown us your heart besides.  It ain't pretty.  
You know nothing of what motivates me to do anything, and your smugness 
reveals nothing of your concern for the poor and everything about your 
hatred of people you disagree with.  It's a hell of a testimony, and I mean 
that as literally as possible.

keely emerine mix

Hey, Dale --

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