#You know that a lot of things you hate about landlords/renting are bad people exploiting fuzzy laws?

[adulthumanproblem]

Honestly, I was kind of done with the online left when people claimed you're a real life bad person if you

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Play the video game The Tenants (and similar)

Because you play as a landlord, and landlords are evil, and because you play as one, you basically are one, and you're therefor evil

No really. That's a discussion I had.

I tried to teach them the difference between real life and video games, between fantasy and reality, but no dice

I got blocked the moment I said that I'm anti-gun irl but still play shooter games every so often

Anyway. Many of the "progressive moral online left" would totally blame video games for real life violence

[hummingbird-hunter]

You know, I was with y'all on the landlord hate, until y'all expanded the definition of "landlords we hate" from "rich people who are buying out entire apartment blocks and then rent them out for extremely inflated prices because they know people can't buy/rent anywhere else" to "anyone who owns and/or rents out property", which then, of course, turns to "people who get money without working". And when disabled people are rightfully calling you out on your bulshit you scramble to backtrack and say "well actually I said we hate those who capitalize on people's lives" or shit like that, parroting some shit that you neither thought about nor included in your original post.

Recently I saw a post which had a phrase “They’re not smarter or faster they’re buying up others’ lifetimes to do their chores” in relation to rich people; which, is, well, look at the phrasing yourself — it phrases hiring cleaning stuff as "buying up others' liferimes to do their chores"; and when a disabled person in the notes said about how stuff like this makes them feel bad about hiring a maid, people reblogged it, scrambling to explain, "of course hiring a cleaning service is not exploitative! It saddens me that in conversation about worker exploitation people respond like this! No one says that hiring cleaning service is exploitative, just how you treat your workers!". And, yes. That person is correct. Hiring cleaning services is not inherently exploitative.

The original post, however, is very clearly phrased like it is. And the reblog criticizing it did not "miss the point"; they got the point exactly — it was other people scrambling to correct the "misunderstanding" who were backtracking.

And I see this stuff a lot — someone says something not thought-through about working and money, a disabled person criticizing them, and people scrambling to correct themselves — of course it's fine for you to do, it is not inherently bad, it's just that they use it in exploitative way! And, pray tell, what's the difference between us and them? That they are rich? Well, we've already established that y'all can't differentiate between people who buy out entire apartment blocks and someone who owns two apartments, so not that. Their disability status? So are some things just morally correct for disabled people that are immoral for able-bodied people? All that does is forces disabled people to reveal their disability status to be heard, and prove that they're "disabled enough".

Because, let's be real, a lot of you did think all those things — owning property, hiring cleaning service, etc — were somehow immoral, and that someone who doesn't work is a freeloader and should "get a real job"; and you are only forced to rethink that when criticized by a disabled person; and you don't even rethink — just scramble for an excuse.