Unintentionally Horrifying "Uplifting" News Stories
Channel: Revolution Tube
Date: 31/03/2019

We've all seen those happy human interest stories at the end of the news about puppies being adopted or ordinary people winning the lottery. A reddit community, /r/upliftingnews tracks them. 

But a growing number of these supposedly uplifting stories are actually awful when you stop to think about them for 20 seconds. What is uplifting about a girl selling lemonade to fund her cancer treatment or kids wading through garbage to fund college? 

These stories are little more than perseverance porn, and reveal the hidden cruelty of capitalism and the desperation and difficulty of ordinary people's lives. But our media is so out of touch that it thinks these stories are uplifting tales. The media's role in society is to engineer consent for the status quo, and so it cannot ask the very obvious questions that arise from these stories because they are so entrenched in their own "bootstrapism" ideology.

What is uplifting or inspiring about a homeless 8 year old chess champion? Or a six year old selling lemonade to pay for her chemotherapy? Or walking 15 miles to work every day? 

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