Comment by daenz
3 years ago
I am being polite in explaining the low-income perspective on devices like these. Looking at a device designed for low-income people who are trying to breathe healthy air and saying, essentially, "it's ugly, I would never want that" is extremely tone deaf around why it exists in the first place: because desperate people need an inexpensive solution. If you feel shame from that alternate perspective, I would suggest it comes from within.
You're misquoting me. I never said they were extremely fortunate for choosing one model over the other, I said they were extremely fortunate for "being able to choose form over function." When wildfire season rolls around and air becomes very hazardous where I lived, local air purifiers of all kinds were completely sold out, and the box fan solution is all a lot of us had[0]. It's not just inexpensive, it's about availability of materials.
>just to try to dunk on someone
You're attributing negative intentions to my posts, which isn't appreciated.
0. https://twitter.com/seattlefire/status/1425260701568970752
Are you talking about emergencies, or are you talking about "the low-income perspective"?
Because you said you were doing the latter, and I was criticizing your words using that context. In that context, your words come across as judgemental.
If you're actually talking about the former, then you chose your words pretty poorly.
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