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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What makes a spokesperson is that my family was, in fact, one of those poor people. What makes me a spokesperson is that many of my family members are currently those poor people that I refer too. See, despite my current income I actually know, hang around, friends with many of those poor people that you think of in the hypothetical.[/quote]
Well, that's just the height of arrogance.  How in hell can you be a spokesperson for poor people any more than I can be a spokesperson for people who are my gender, my race, or my socioeconomic status?  You may know how a small subset of people think by having lived and interacted with them, but it takes quite a bit of gall to then claim that you can speak for a whole demographic.

Claiming that only upper-middle class families should get FA because they meet a minimum threshold to afford a $40K private school is about as class-perpetuating and inegalitarian as one can be.  Awfully hypocritical if your family was in fact poor.[/quote]

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