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In response to
"disabled people can bring their own straws*, and it's not that small a difference when added up. smaller than some other"
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b.
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I'm all for incremental change, but if the goal is totally eliminating plastic straws, you're demonstrably doing it at someone's expense.
Posted by
mafic
Jul 24 '18, 19:32
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the people I see arguing against it for the most part seem to be fighting an early rear-guard action. they generally already do bring their own straws, but say paper/metal/bamboo aren't functional. if you get rid of the plastic ones *entirely* - which seems to be the goal - then the ones they rely on become increasingly difficult to get, and probably more expensive.
basically the good people feel they're doing is much greater than the good they're actually doing, and the harm gets totally ignored. I think most of the stridency comes from that last part, especially since the harm is almost exclusively to an already marginalised community.
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