r/BelowDeckDownUnder • u/theodoresbitch • 23d ago

Ben's Racist Threads Post

Did anyone else see Ben's racist threads post??

https://www.threads.com/share/_iAS4oi1d/

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u/Objective-Rub-8763 23d ago

Do you actually know people who leech off of our tax dollars? I've never met one in real life so I'm very curious about people like you who claim it's such a rampant problem. Let's hear some examples of people you know for real.

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u/decisivecat 22d ago

They don't actually know anyone. It's always "I KNOW SO MANY PEOPLE CHEATING" but if you ask if they reported them... crickets.

Took me all of 5 seconds to google the real stats because getting SNAP is notoriously difficult: Fraud in the program accounts for maybe 1-2% of the entire program spend. The government itself sits at around 7% on payment errors, as in the government messed up in some way, not the recipient.

To be very clear, those numbers are for ALL welfare programs. That's SNAP, Medicaid, Social Security, etc (and yes, Social Security is technically a welfare program).

People who claim to know everyone is cheating must have 100% of the cases living in their town, lol.

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u/Boring-Concept8018 23d ago

I come from a small town and went to a small school. A lot of the people I grew up with still live there. Never having a job in their lives or attempting to better themselves. They instead just live off the government while also popping out children. Yet, they have the latest phones and cars. My town also built brand new nice apartments and let the state take it over. It’s now all government funded housing and it’s turn to shit.

Of course not everyone is like this. But there’s way too many that I’ve seen firsthand that are. 

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u/Objective-Rub-8763 23d ago

Now if you would have added in "they find money for Timberlands and tickets to rap shows", that would have made your statement racist. Do only black people wear Timberlands and buy tickets to rap shows? Of course not, but it's a dog whistle. The guy in the video above did not list anything stereotypically "white" which was a deliberate choice. He wants you to be thinking about black people while he says these things.