this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2023
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[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Happy Fake Labor Day to the Americans, because their government wants to hide real labor day from their citizens so they don't have to educate them about the Haymarket Affair.

Labor Day being in September is absolutely about erasing labor history. If more people knew labor history, more people would understand why All Cops Are Bastards.

[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You are correct, the American website Wikipedia definitely does not have an article on Haymarket

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The average American has a seventh grade reading level (with 54% of the population with less than a sixth grade reading level), and you expect them to be educated enough to 1. know what it is and 2. look for a Wikipedia article on it?

Jesus, half this fucking country doesn't even live in reality anymore. Somehow, they're supposed to just know that it's on Wikipedia.

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[–] SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 1 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I know landlords that work way fucking harder than I do, and I have a "real job". I get that a lot of landlords are assholes but in the end this is the system and some are playing the game as fairly as they can (being reasonable, very rarely raising rent, attending to maintenance themselves and in a timely manner) while others are cheating (not maintaining the property, raising rent, forcing tenants to sign burdensome leases, etc). Stop lumping them together.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've found that on many Lemmy instances we got way too many people who find it much easier to just say all are assholes, there are NO exceptions!

Yeah I agree. Painting with a broad brush is something we all do, but my god people have some self awareness once in a while.

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[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a version of this with proper English? It doesn’t help the plight of the labourer to speak so poorly

[–] triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

just come out and say "with white English" and stop beating around the bush

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