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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Books, documentaries, movies, YouTube videos, wikipedia articles, sometimes even social media posts.

You'll learn a lot more about the plight of the poor by reading a book written by a poor person than you will working alongside a poor person. [/quote]

Huh? All this ensures is that you can pat yourself on the back for knowing all about poor people without ever actually knowing any poor people. [/quote]

Well, are you going to pay yourself in the back for knowing poor people without having taken the time and effort to read what underprivileged people have written ?

I come from poverty so I don’t need to go out if my way to  “expose” my kids to it, but I’d much rather my child have read Angels Davis, bell hooks, Malcom X, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Frederick Douglass, Ta-Nahisi Coates, Frederick Douglass, James Baldwin and even Lindy West, etc than feel like they are aware of who they are in the world just because they know some underprivileged people. You can still be obtuse, classist, racist, sexist, etc while knowing people from all walks of life. [/quote]

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