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Oct. 24th, 2005 11:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluebeardI find it interesting how every time I suggest that people do things themselves instead of hiring someone else to do it for them, people start screaming "CLASSIST! You know they're not educated enough to do that on their own!"
No, dear, for me to be classist I would have to claim that people below my class (working class, by the way.) have the same access to resources as I do, even if they didn't.
However, in this case, I'm claiming that everyone has access to forms and information. They're called libraries. They're called support groups. You do not have to see an attorney in order to draw up a power of attorney contract. Really. You don't.
Guess what, America! YOU CAN EDUCATE YOURSELF! No, it's not classist of me to suggest that. It's classist of you to suggest that "they" can't.
It's also classist of you to speak in "us/them" language.
Idiots.
No, dear, for me to be classist I would have to claim that people below my class (working class, by the way.) have the same access to resources as I do, even if they didn't.
However, in this case, I'm claiming that everyone has access to forms and information. They're called libraries. They're called support groups. You do not have to see an attorney in order to draw up a power of attorney contract. Really. You don't.
Guess what, America! YOU CAN EDUCATE YOURSELF! No, it's not classist of me to suggest that. It's classist of you to suggest that "they" can't.
It's also classist of you to speak in "us/them" language.
Idiots.