"race" "class", meaningless words without giving detailed definitions
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What class is a blue collar business owner? A doctor employed at a large hospital she has no ownership of?
What race is an Irish traveller? A Bulgarian? A Romania? Are Slovaks the same race as French? Germans?
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Idk what race I am unless you tell me what you mean by race, despite knowing my family tree stretching back hundreds of years
I'm the first in my family to get a degree. My father studied philosophy and was a union organiser, my grandfather a docker. Am I working class? Middle?
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With apologies to but I found your question alien and hard to usefully answer
You'd probably expect "white, <answer>", I'd prefer to say "Irish, (but literally), <answer>", both are so muddy as to be meaningless without immense shared context and understanding
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yeah that makes sense the tweets were just not enough space to elaborate on what i was actually after and why - like i didn't even mention i was really only looking for responses from americans
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the thing i was trying to get at was something about "class socialization" but it's messy and hard to point at and also i don't understand it at all so i'm asking bad questions and hopefully i'll learn something from doing that anyway
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To be clear not trying to drag
The idea you're trying to get at it incredibly messy and poorly defined and if you can figure out a way to talk about it concisely that'd be astounding
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