class and violence v0 underclass: social and predatory violence pervasive proletariat: occasional social violence; professional violence (cops, soldiers) lower middle class: professional violence (managerial; eg, police management)
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upper middle class: violence is verboten and banished from all spheres upper class: violent, but indirectly unless a private sociopath. Direct others (lower middle, proletariat) to use violence on their behalf
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the utter tabooing of violence by the upper middle class is interesting and i bet unusual and i also suspect a major, major blind spot
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familiarity with violence is enough to exclude you from many upper middle class circles i bet hmmmmm
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anyway work in progress and under revision, feedback appreciated :)
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Replying to @eigenrobot
This is a pretty US centric notion of class - the military in the UK, officers will tend to be upper middle class or higher.
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for sure, UK military has always been aristocratic among commissioned officers yeah?
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US military has the same divide, just obfuscated, bc US and class, and that's how we roll
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