Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?

• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yes, and I would agree that even most landlords are unsavory at best. What I’m taking issue with are absolutist views that say 'no, without exception, x is true '. It’s just thought-terminating mental laziness and it’s not helpful.

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The problem is systemic though. That’s why it’s a general statement. Just like super philanthropic billionaires exist, but we still say there should be no billionaires. You don’t make a movement by adding asterisks.

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Take a step back and realize that you just read that story and then compared my parents to billionaires. I could read that very charitably and say you only meant that generalizations are “helpful” for inspiring change, but even that doesn’t sit right…

      I’m trying to tell you that I don’t think literally saying “ALL landlords are scum” is helpful. Take or leave but I don’t think there’s an honest way to deny that.

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      • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I could compare them to cops if that would make you feel better. Or the outdated western US water rights system. Landlords shouldn’t exist in the form they do now. That somewhere, someone is doing it in the hardest way possible doesn’t somehow make the system better.

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        They didn’t compare your parents to billionaires though? Are you unfamiliar with how analogies work…?

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