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0 pointspixl977y ago0 comments

>”I download ebooks, why would anyone need a library?”

Pretty much the tech version of

"I am a W.A.S.P., I pretend everybody that has different economic, social, and cultural differences from me doesn't exist"

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rayiner7y ago· 1 in thread

Except library usage correlates with the opposite of what you're suggesting: http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/09/15/who-uses-libraries-and.... Different ethnicities use libraries at almost exactly the same rate, and lower-income and lower-education households use libraries less than higher-income, higher-education households.

Library use is declining across the board, but especially quickly in rural communities, among those with less than a high school degree, and among African americans.

Sharlin7y ago

That’s not really a counterargument to what the OP said. Most likely Internet usage is also lower in lower-income, less educated demographics, and the Internet and other media content that is consumed is of lower quality (tabloids, Fox News, etc.) It’s almost tautological that less well educated are, well, less well educated. And low-income-but-employed people often can’t afford to spend time consuming quality media, free or not, because leisure time itself is a luxury. There are a bunch of deep-rooted systemic problems here that the ”tech will solve everything” people conveniently ignore.

dmreedy7y ago· 1 in thread

or, more typically in my experience, (and somewhat more worryingly), "I don't understand that people with economic, social, and cultural differences exist".

To paraphrase Eddie Izzard, it's like the traveling Briton visiting Afghanistan. "Sausage, egg and chips please... you do speak English, you just don't try!"

pbhjpbhj7y ago

Izzard - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GkjwfrJo6uc#

bsagdiyev7y ago· 1 in thread

In case anyone else was confused like me: W.A.S.P. is White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Anglo-Saxon_Protestant)

anoncoward1117y ago

Fun fact about WASPs: back in the day, they used to hang signs that said "No Irish Need Apply". Even though Irish people are quite genetically similar to English people, and indeed today in America most bloodlines are mixed, the English still felt a need to classify Irish and Italians as "Ethnic White".

dang7y ago

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Sharlin7y ago

They’re not wrong when they say that the greatest privilege of all is the blissful lack of awareness of your privileges.

cdoxsey7y ago

Except statistically W.A.S.P.s are no less likely to use a library: http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/09/15/libraries-at-the-cross...

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rayiner7y ago· 1 in thread

Library use is declining across the board, but especially quickly in rural communities, among those with less than a high school degree, and among African americans.

Sharlin7y ago

dmreedy7y ago· 1 in thread

or, more typically in my experience, (and somewhat more worryingly), "I don't understand that people with economic, social, and cultural differences exist".

To paraphrase Eddie Izzard, it's like the traveling Briton visiting Afghanistan. "Sausage, egg and chips please... you do speak English, you just don't try!"

pbhjpbhj7y ago

Izzard - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GkjwfrJo6uc#

bsagdiyev7y ago· 1 in thread

In case anyone else was confused like me: W.A.S.P. is White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Anglo-Saxon_Protestant)

anoncoward1117y ago

dang7y ago

This comment breaks the HN guidelines, which ask you not to bring extraneous flamebait into threads.

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Sharlin7y ago

They’re not wrong when they say that the greatest privilege of all is the blissful lack of awareness of your privileges.

cdoxsey7y ago

Except statistically W.A.S.P.s are no less likely to use a library: http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/09/15/libraries-at-the-cross...

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