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I'm confused, are you saying this jobless rust belt person owns a quarter million dollar 18-wheeler? I'm certainly not saying that white people can't be workin
by joshuamorton 4y ago
I'm confused, are you saying this jobless rust belt person owns a quarter million dollar 18-wheeler?
I'm certainly not saying that white people can't be working class. That'd be silly. What I am saying is that often, we pretend that very affluent rural whites are "working class" to the deficit of urban (and often minority) working class people.
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I'm really having a hard time understanding how you've turned my statement which was functionally "nonwhite people can also be working class" into "white people cannot be working class". So I'm going to disengage.
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- colpabar 4y ago> I'm confused, are you saying this jobless rust belt person owns a quarter million dollar 18-wheeler? No, I'm not, and I think you know that I'm not. I grew up around people like this - rich kids who would put exhaust stacks on their lifted F350s - so I know what you mean. My point is that the dem response to the hollowing out of the american working class (obligatory bill clinton approved NAFTA mention) seems to be "should've gone to college lol". Like it or not, white people are the majority in america, so it seems extremely counterproductive to only consider the needs of the "real" (read: not white) working class people instead of the entire group.
- rayiner 4y agoNo, you said “actual working class people” are “usually minorities.” That’s both wildly inaccurate and dismissive of working class white people.