Have I got this correct

mariaalice

This is via an article in the weekend papers I'm not going to credit the journalist yet as the replies would be all about the journalist.

In Ireland of the 1950s or any decade up to relatively recently, a lot of people were poor, various levels of being poor, and the general consensus was thats just the way is it.

Moden (woke ) view many people in 1950s Ireland lived in poverty and poverty was something the state could do something about, so poverty was and is a choice society had made, poor people and their advocates started to speak of living in poverty and not about being poor.

So basically woke is taking something that in previous eras was considered just the way it is and then repackaging it as something else and telling people they have been exploited, in my example poor become poverty.

ancapailldorcha

I've no idea what the point of this is to be honest. I've read the OP twice despite it containing the word "woke", usually a warning to stop.

dxhound2005

There never was a general consensus about poverty and there isn't one now. Anyway if poverty disappeared "relatively recently", then there is no need to worry about it in the 1950's.

igCorcaigh

OP, you have it wrong.

I wouldn't be as arrogant as to suggest to you to learn the basics about history, politics and economics, so I will leave that to someone else.

mariaalice

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120206686#Comment_120206686

I would be reasonably well-read but not enough to encompass the whole of politics, history, and economics

My favorite philosopher is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gray_(philosopher)

History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Sandbrook

dxhound2005

Is it an opinion piece by the newspaper columnist, or a report about research on the topic of poverty?

CrookedJack

Ugh, is this that weird guy who always regs under female names and posts inane, pseudo-naive threads again? What were his/her other names?

igCorcaigh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120206705#Comment_120206705

Interesting, thank you!

Mrs OBumble

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120206686#Comment_120206686

Well I will suggest learning some basic maths, and looking hard at the definition of poverty: unless everyone has the same income there will always be some who are " in poverty ".

Pointless thread with an incoherent OP.

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