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?

• 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 Or the outdated western US water rights system.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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      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Whatever you say. In every way that matters I myself am closer to a billionaire than my parents. And I’m not close. But don’t let that stop your mentally lazy infighting with your own class, assuming you aren’t a billionaire yourself

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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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      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Their point was that my parents belong to a class of evil people, which I thoroughly demonstrated was false. And even if you ignore that, you can’t pretend that chosen example was meaningless

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