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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(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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It does bump up against the bad faith “but they have a cell phone! But they have a tv! But they have a refrigerator!” objection to ever trying to get people to accept what “poor” means and who it is.
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Occupy Wall Street really struck gold with the "99% vs. 1%" messaging, even though since then that's given way to a lot of inane bickering over how specifically you define that
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