The young lady pictured here is Tanvi Misra. She is responsible for this piece of racist,
crap found here.
I gotta tell you….and this might just be me, it takes some
frigging WORK to figure out a way to equate dollar stores, and Dollar General
in particular, with systemic racism (which is a bullshit rationale from the
start). BUT, leave it to a non-white
woman with a feminist axe to grind……..and social justice warrior / liberal
viewpoint that the greatest nation in the history of the world is bad…..because
you think so; they will find a way if it kills them (or you).
I want to disassemble this piece of crap para by para….I
might go astray (or die from old age), but let me give this a chance.
Para 1. “Sometimes
with the help of local tax incentives”.
What significant business does NOT at least solicit tax incentives? And how are tax incentives that are good for,
say, Target, not a good idea for Dollar General? As an argument against Dollar Stores, this
isn’t. “But it offers little in terms of
fresh produce and nutritious items”.
So? I live in grocery store
heaven; Schnucks, Dierbergs, Walmart Grocery Market….guess what I bought the
last time I was there? CAKE! Not healthy and not at a dollar store. My point is that people are not flocking to
Dollar General for the freshest Romaine lettuce, and that sort of stuff is not
advertised to be available there. For
the record, I also don’t go to a hardware store for apples (and I eat quite a
few of those).
Para 2. These small
box stores are now “feeding more people than Whole Foods”. That shit happens when there are 30,000
dollar stores and 400 hundred Whole Foods stores. And, have you shopped at a Whole Foods
store? What a bunch of pretentious
shits, paying far too much for the “organic” label (BTW…..I can by 24 XL eggs
at the Walmart Market for about $2……OR, I can pay more than $5 for “organic”
eggs at Whole Fods, with EXACTLY the same nutritional value…..and without
putting up with some stuck up asshole I want the throat punch). The study cited here reflects that dollar
stores are growing at a break neck pace, which is “bad news”.
Why? “While dollar
stores sometimes fill a need in cash-strapped communities, growing evidence
suggests these stores are not merely a byproduct of economic distress,” the
authors of the brief write. “They’re a cause of it.”
What? How can that
be (you may ask yourself). Well, the
answer is simple according to the researchers.
“Dollar stores have succeeded in part by capitalizing on a series of
powerful economic and social forces — white flight, the recent recession, the
so-called “retail apocalypse” — all of which have opened up gaping holes in
food access. But while dollar store might not be causing these inequalities per se, they appear
to be perpetuating them. The savings they claim to offer shoppers in the
communities they move to makes them, in some ways, a little poorer”. Here is a hint when reading BS like
this…..whenever someone tosses “Per se” into the discussion, tune them out….at
least on that particular talking point.
And when blaming ANYTHING on “white flight”, without at least
identifying the CAUSE of that perceived (or real) white flight….you know you
are on to a racist first class.
But wait!!! There’s
MORE!! “Such moves can be
divisive—detractors point to the dire need such stores are meeting in
retail-starved areas. But the rise of dollar stores represents a deeper
problem, one rooted in the history of housing segregation. Addressing that
issue requires questioning the host of complicated assumptions that have led to
the present conditions—and the myriad ways residents in so-called food deserts
have responded to them”.
There it is…..I knew we could get to it…..Dollar Stores are
RACIST!!!! Damned white people….if it
were just not for you and your civilization!
Okay, I give up….I am NOT going to be able to do this
paragraph by paragraph…..I only have one brain that can explode today….and it
is almost there. But you get it
right? RACISM!!! It is all, in the end, as all things are,
racist.
True story, I kid you not……You know I recently left Kansas
for the healthy tax haven of Illinois (I am kidding……Illinois will tax your tax
if they can find a way). In a
particularly war torn part of Kansas City, there was no grocery store within
blocks….several liquor stores and nail salons and weave retailers….but no grocery
store. So, ALDI’s, a great store,
decided to go where no grocery store would go.
Not only did they open a store in the gunfighting district, it was a
LARGE store (most ALDI’s are not).
Within a year it was losing money hand over fist due to theft by customers,
and it closed. On the border of KCKS and
KCMO, a very nice grocer opened up (the name escapes me, but it was nice), and
it has been shot up twice. NEITHER of
those stores opened through a lack of “investment” in the community….but they
DID close because the risk TO SERVE, was not worth it to the company. Like all stories and theories from the left,
this one struggles hard to lay the blame on the “problem” somewhere that it
does not belong.
Look, I am from the south…..I have lived in my share of
crap, one traffic light towns, where the Dollar General store is known as the
small town Walmart. The nearest Walmart
is 20-30 miles away. Are the groceries
the best? Nope. Are the prices the best? Probably not.
Are the jobs the greatest or best paying? Again, probably not. BUT…nothing from nothing is still
nothing……and the fact that a Dollar General is in your town where nothing else
is, speaks to capitalism, need and a willingness to fill that need. But HEY!!!
If you think you can entice a Whole Foods into your one traffic light
town, with the prices that Whole Foods has, then do it…..
I don’t think you can you can make this about race…..
Or, if you are a racist….I guess you can.
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