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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("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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