I 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…
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.
No no, you don’t understand. They are being forced at gunpoint to commute to air conditioned office jobs where they fuck off for hours every day by complaining about their jobs on Lemmy. It truly is the worst existance. If only they could escape that farm potatos in Kamchatka!
Well, guess you can’t complain about your job either because there are those who mine coal by hand deep under dangerous rock and septic tank divers without helmets.
People are not allowed to dislike their station in life because someone else has it ‘worse’ somewhere else?
I 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…
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.
Because is a privilege, and you should at least aknowledge or respect that it is.
No no, you don’t understand. They are being forced at gunpoint to commute to air conditioned office jobs where they fuck off for hours every day by complaining about their jobs on Lemmy. It truly is the worst existance. If only they could escape that farm potatos in Kamchatka!
Well, guess you can’t complain about your job either because there are those who mine coal by hand deep under dangerous rock and septic tank divers without helmets.