I'm sitting here weighing the idea that you could get rid of a lot of what's toxic about the word "working-class" (as well as misleading, hypocritical, inconsistent, etc.) in ordinary discourse by just committing to saying "poor" instead
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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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I feel like no matter how we phrase it, we're still going to have people twisting meaning until million-dollar-income podcasters are the proletariat heroes and even the poorest substitute teacher is an effete academic ivory tower snob.
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Definitely need to refer to them as petit bourgeoisie.
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Or trust fund brats who read "The Communist Manifesto" once in college (so they can claim...and in fact lecture on..."working-class solidarity" too, right? And now that they are "oppressed" they don't have to work on ways *they* marginalize others, correct?)

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"Working-class" has become more of a "brand" than class descriptor nowadays, a label like "Gucci" or "Prada" that suppose to symbolize a "lifestyle"
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