"Washington Post Promotes Dickensian Marketing Experiment on Poor Children." [View all]

[SusanCalvin]

FAIR is right, this is disgusting.

http://us10.campaign-archive2.com/?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=dcd7c5a376&e=66f9c91e8b

The Washington Post offers readers a chance to watch impoverished children taunted with a cruel choice.

In America, as a rule, we shame the poor, ignore the poor, blame the poor for being poor, mock the poor and do little to nothing to protect the poor. Increasingly, however, a new trend has emerged: using the poor as props in shoddy “inspirational” viral content. One such effort was recently featured in the Washington Post (12/18/15), and is as bad as such things get:

These Low-Income Kids Were Given a Gift for Their Parents and for Themselves. But They Could Only Keep One.