▲ 796 ▼ Reinvented from first principles (thelemmy.club) submitted 3 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works 96 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] homes@piefed.world 3 points 3 months ago (3 children) Welcome to social Darwinism permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago (2 children) Social darwinism isn't that, although it's big with people of Netherlandian extraction, Calvinists. Social darwinism is the belief that everything is preordained, and if you are rich, god favors you, if poor, god hates you. It would be irresponsible to help the poor because god wants them to suffer, and so forth. Like the Prosperity Doctrine. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] homes@piefed.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 child) I was kidding permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] tdawg@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago Didn't someone tell you it's illegal to make jokes on Lemmy permalink fedilink source parent
[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago (2 children) Social darwinism isn't that, although it's big with people of Netherlandian extraction, Calvinists. Social darwinism is the belief that everything is preordained, and if you are rich, god favors you, if poor, god hates you. It would be irresponsible to help the poor because god wants them to suffer, and so forth. Like the Prosperity Doctrine. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] homes@piefed.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 child) I was kidding permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] tdawg@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago Didn't someone tell you it's illegal to make jokes on Lemmy permalink fedilink source parent
[–] homes@piefed.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 child) I was kidding permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] tdawg@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago Didn't someone tell you it's illegal to make jokes on Lemmy permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago Didn't someone tell you it's illegal to make jokes on Lemmy permalink fedilink source parent