Again, not making this crap up

[sigma7]

Via mightygodking, Barbara Bush the Elder channels Marie Antoinette, referring to evacuees now living in the Astrodome:

"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them."

Comments

Re: As a member of the middle class myself...

[cptn-oblivious.livejournal.com]

Perhaps bourgeois was not the best choice of words. I'm sure you at least comprehend that something horrible has happened. There are those who are so distant from the rest of us that the disaster like many of us see the images of starving children in Africa. Then there are those who have never had hardships and have no clue.
Please take none of this personally. I am frustrated by the state of the world and my position in it and sometimes vent in the wrong direction.

Re: As a member of the middle class myself...

[ember-burn.livejournal.com]

OH, hon... I wasn't offended by what you said. I was just stating a simple truth. I REALLY CAN'T comprehend the horror of it all. I had a friend that was in Baton Rouge up until last Saturday. She put a post in a group I belong to and was talking about all the bodies around and such. It's one thing to accept it intellectually, but to hear her, a person I know talking about it... well, it's different, and I GET that I just can't GET it. Does that make sense?

I live in a pretty isolated and happy sort of place. I had some rough times when I was a kid that have given me some perspective, but I don't have to see or deal with deprivation much any more. The closest I come is dealing with juvenile delinquents at work who have nasty home lives or seeing poor people on the street. I've lost a few friends in Iraq lately also. But none of that imparts the sheer impact of what's happening in the South.

However, that being said. I get angry and frustrated because this type of event happens world-wide so often and yet, when it happens in the US it's somehow supposedly worse than it happening elsewhere. Part of me thinks we should worry about what happens in our own country first, and the other part of me thinks we should try to fix some of the underlying problems with issues like poverty and healthcare on a global scale. There just isn't anyone with enough of a global perspective to make that a reality though.
sighs...

Enough with the ranting and rambling. Suffice it to say that I was simply being genuine in my statement that it was impossible for me to fully comprehend the horror.