Julie Borden
Aug 4, 2022

Right! That's terrible. I'm not super up-to-date on TV shows, but I don't think we have (any? many?) shows like that in the U.S. But conservative politicians have always loved to use the one outlier example of the "welfare queen" who drives a fancy car. There was a big deal about it way back in the early 1980's. Funny thing is, I heard a public radio story about this woman just a couple years ago. According the the story, this woman was bad news, LOTS of criminal behavior in addition to welfare fraud, some violent even. And so anything but typical! But I swear, some people still hold that stereotype in their minds ALL these years later.

Julie Borden
Julie Borden

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Social worker, therapist, reader, writer, head-in-the-clouds dreamer, awed by most everything. (She/her) Reach me at JulieBordenLCSW@gmail.com.

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