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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

Donating canned goods to food pantries is like donating needles and syringes to a cancer research organization

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Donating canned goods to food pantries is like donating needles and syringes to a cancer research organization

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

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It definitely had “all poor people are addicts” connotations
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  Can I ask… how so?
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    Relating food that people need to needles to do drugs. To me, it conveyed that if you give these people food they will become like addicts.

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