Dude, you're the one who used your subjective negative experiences and made them so broad as to encompass a woman with cancer. Someone might've given you a bad experience but you're the one who took that and decided to broaden the category as everyone who uses an emergency room. This reads like maybe you had a traumatized experience and are acting extremely traumatized about it (like if a man punched me in the face and I declared all men to be face-punchers. My nose is broken but not all men broke it.).

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mothballed 2 days ago | parent [-]

They didn't encompass a woman with cancer, they encompassed the people that degraded her care. A commenter literally used his cancer-ridden wife as bait to support his false argument, which I find to be way more abhorrent than whatever it is you think I said. Y'all are using the whole cancer excuse, which isn't the flu nor considered an STD, because you know anyone with cancer automatically wins the argument because how can you argue against a spouse of a metastatic cancer patient.

It's the debate equivalent of bringing a bunch of little kids in casts from a school shooting to a gun control debate. If the kid speaks up, it doesn't matter what you say, if you discount their opinion you lose, all you can do is nod and say thank you for sharing your experience.

Welp, we're on the internet here, and I have no "face" to lose. So I'm willing to get banned from HN or face unpopular opinion if it means telling the realities of the situation and not having my opinion shouted down "because of my wife with cancer" trump card. I'm not willing to just nod, I don't give a fuck if he extends the story to 3 kids with leukemia and his arthritic dog.

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KittenInABox 2 days ago | parent [-]

Bro now you're assuming a guy is baiting you when, as far as I can see, he was just protesting his wife being in the category of what you called "hood rats". You're the one that extrapolated your bad experience to all patients in the ER, btw, not the "hood rats" you were forced to deal with. This is such an emotional overreaction I think you probably went through some shit and can't see how damaged you've become as a result. You can't even see a man who loves his genuinely suffering wife as anything more than a cheap shot to win an argument. I'm sorry for what it's worth.

	▲	mothballed 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		The commenter insinuated his wife was a hoodrat because she was black, which was some blatantly racist nonsense. He's the one that insinuated she meets the criteria of a hoodrat, I don't at all agree with his categorization based on facts presented. Amazingly he even shits on the people that even found her cancer, so you can see even if you do the full work up (the very thing he implies those who believe there's a "hood rat" wouldn't do despite paradoxically accusing of the people doing it as thinking of her as a hoodrat) and catch cancer you're damned. The cancer discovered post a referral by a doctor to go to the ER doesn't even remotely fit under the criteria I listed. The only reason why what he said carries any weight as a rebuttal is because he's carrying an intensely sad story that has clouded both of your minds with emotion to the point it's being used as a trump card.