Working class people cook. Working class people often *have to* cook. Most chefs are working class. Most classic dishes originate from working people feeding themselves. And we don’t drink from jars. The disinclination to associate working class with skill is beyond insulting
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Replying to @FlorenceHRS @cemhend and
It’s not about spending money on things because we “don’t deserve” them. It’s because when you know where every dollar is going, it seems much more practical to use an old cool whip container as Tupperware.
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Replying to @mikkimetchel @cemhend and
working class people will also occasionally buy something fancy, or inherit items from other family members? Like yeah I get that there’s a frugality mindset, but it’s not like working class people who don’t use old cool whip containers are suddenly middle class.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @cemhend and
Class is complex. In my field, we usually use education as a good indicator of middle-class status. We’re not implying that there’s a clear line where you suddenly become middle class; how people identify is important.
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Replying to @mikkimetchel @cemhend and
Lmao are you fucking kidding me. That is some classist shite right there. Wow.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @mikkimetchel and
I’m not being patronisingly told that ‘class is complex’ on a thread where I literally called for more nuance and fewer generalisations about class.
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Replying to @FlorenceHRS @AdmiralHip and
Fuck nuance. Some of these generalizations are true, and just because you misread
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Replying to @mikkimetchel @AdmiralHip and
‘Class is complex’ but ‘fuck nuance’ ‘Working class people aren’t educated’ but ‘you have to have relevant qualifications to understand class’ I can’t fathom a response to such inconsistency.
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Replying to @FlorenceHRS @AdmiralHip and
Nuance and complexity aren’t the same. The academic standard in US Soc. is formal educational attainment, no one said it’s the only thing that matters or that other types of knowledge are useless in determining class.
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Replying to @mikkimetchel @AdmiralHip and
fwiw I think that's one of the two broad measures Canadian sociologists tend to differentiate with also, by income quintile and by education level (no post-secondary, some post-secondary, degree).
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Those are also designations that are ultimately arbitrary, because there IS a lot of nuance in defining the working class.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @cemhend and
So honestly I am leaving this convo finally because this is becoming absurd.
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