> will reduce the comments I see on the internet that try and compare Delhi/Mumbai squalor to LA
You want to reduce comments comparing your city's poorness to another city's poorness.
> It's not really enough...you should experience it for yourself
You're saying I can't talk about poor areas I know about because they're not as poor as your city. That's gatekeeping being poor, plain as day. But more than that, it totally shuts down all conversation about why your city might be so poor. What is happening in your advanced poor city that isn't happening in other cities?
> You want to reduce comments comparing your city's poorness to another city's poorness.
Not exactly. My bad, perhaps I should've provided an example of the kind of comment I'm talking about. I can't be arsed to go find that comment right now but it's about this video:
The comment I'm talking about begins with (iirc) "The same thing is happening in LA..."
I don't know what chip you have on your shoulder about this "gatekeeping" but I wish you luck and hope that these things aren't happening in your cities, but of course you have the freedom to say that they are regardless.
I want to add something: I'm just against saying that these things are the same. I'm not saying anything about better or worse or that poverty isn't poverty. Given a choice I might rather be the average homeless person in India as opposed to LA, because at least I wouldn't be as likely to be there due to crippling addictions or mental illness.
That's why I compared it to languages, I don't think one established language is objectively better or worse than another, but direct translations rarely work well.
> will reduce the comments I see on the internet that try and compare Delhi/Mumbai squalor to LA
You want to reduce comments comparing your city's poorness to another city's poorness.
> It's not really enough...you should experience it for yourself
You're saying I can't talk about poor areas I know about because they're not as poor as your city. That's gatekeeping being poor, plain as day. But more than that, it totally shuts down all conversation about why your city might be so poor. What is happening in your advanced poor city that isn't happening in other cities?