Yes I know that in Marxist theory etc. it has a specific meaning I'm saying that meaning has been so messed up by the way people use it and bicker over it that outside of an academic context, "poor" works much better
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It's just really grating hearing about "the working class" to refer to people who own giant ranch houses and huge pickup trucks and a whole arsenal and so forth, and who turn out to own businesses and have employees Over and over and over again
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I understand that nowadays what a lot of people mean by "working-class" is just a set of cultural stereotypes, nothing more So just say "poor" instead -- if you actually care about helping people then "poor" is the important thing
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("Middle-class" is a million times worse but we've already beaten that conversation to death)
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(The worst thing about Chris Arnade's "front-row-kids vs back-row-kids" thing is anything actually worthwhile about this discourse could be completely replaced by "rich vs poor" To the extent "FRK vs BRK" means anything *more* than "rich vs poor", it is garbage)
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(And like Arnade is actually trying to stretch the bullshit cultural connotation stuff BEYOND where it was with "working-class" Few people could possibly defend the idea that Donald Trump has ever actually been working-class but he "feels working-class" as a "back-row kid")
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But the working-class people are mostly referring to here are white men who make good salaries. Right?
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That is the problem, unlike women, WOC caretakers, who do not make a living wage.
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Bruh. There's nothing "toxic" about it. Are you even a Socialist or Communist? Maybe the reason u think there's "toxicity" with the word because you're ideologically more Conservative? Our at a minimum u haven't actually read up on it.
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Its more and more not used to refer to poor people like originally intendet but to 3rd generation coal miners that own businesses now
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