• jeffw@lemmy.worldOPM
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    4 days ago

    “Why don’t poor people move further?!”

    Yeah, my view is soooo limited. I really can’t wrap my head around a poor person giving up 3 jobs and moving to a new town without any income because I’m soooo narrowninded

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      They’re college students. They already moved to live in Tuscaloosa, have temp/seasonal jobs and all of their possessions fit in 2-3 suitcases. Millions of students accomplish this every year for much weaker reasons. Stop acting like it’s uprooting a family of 4.

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        3 days ago

        I can’t tell if you’re serious or farming downvotes. Leaning towards downvote farming since you’re so far off from reality. Over 1/4th of college students are parents. Close to that many skip meals because they can’t afford it.

        If you, somehow, are serious, you need a reality check.

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          “I’m too poor to not give money to a regressive university”

          Bama has over 40k students enrolled and less than 200 bothered to even protest this shitbag giving a commencement speech. There wasn’t even a movement to skip attending the event at all.

          I know college students at minor schools, I know people who work in admissions at major universities, I know grad students who are single parents. I know people who handle scholarships and grant funding.

          Yeah college is an expensive bureaucracy and not having money makes it harder. But trust me when I say that anyone scraping by at a flagship university has a way out. This isn’t cold hearted bootstraps, the university system is probably the most supportive career institution in America (if you’re a student).

          There are a plethora of ways to show you give a shit and resources to help you do it. The people still at Bama don’t give a shit.

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                6 hours ago

                Only got 2 undergrad degrees and 2 masters

                I hadn’t even thought that maybe you went to college? Must’ve been a stuffy place where you didn’t learn anything