• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    And black people are astronomically more likely to be on welfare than white people. So the number of single young white male ‘Brads’ abusing the welfare system is minuscule,” posted Matt Walsh.

    Matt Walsh doesn’t know how numbers work…

    Most people on welfare identify as white, so pick any random welfare recipient, and statistically they’re gonna be white.

    I don’t know what them being single has to do with it, sounds like he just immediately started defending incels…

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      The stats make black and Hispanic SNAP recipients seem a bit disproportionate but the difference is small enough so as to be easily explained by institutional barriers

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    The biggest welfare recipients are wealthy white guys. Remember when Brett Farve directed $5mil to his daughter’s school and then got another million for speaking fees from public funds?

    And that’s nothing compared to how much we subsidize billionaires and their corporations. Hell, Wal-Mart, an Arkansas based company, directs their employees to sign up for Medicaid instead of paying a living wage despite the Walton family having a net worth over $500 billion.

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    Pick a lane!

    Brown people took all the jobs
    or
    Brown people are all on welfare

    Which is it?!?

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    LOL, the reality doesn’t match their feels.

    I seem to remember these people screaming stuff like “facts don’t care about your feelings”. Meanwhile, they have so many feelings about so many things that are just wrong.