Azhir Mahmood  🚀 🤖 🧬 🧠 🪐

Use this energy, UK friends. Never forget what the Tories and their ideology have done to, how they emboldened, the Media and indeed everybody to be such a system-/capitalism-lover.https://twitter.com/nhs_groverhaus/status/1364871393041604610 …

Ngl, the U.K. has had a weird fetishisation of the idea of meritocracy, especially since the beginning of the 21st century. Despite classism being a the foundations of British life, there’s a total lack of acknowledgement of it.

The modern understanding of meritocracy harks back to ideas in Victorian Britain. Centuries later we still believe the poor are poor due to moral failing.

"the deserving versus the undeserving poor" yup

Yup. I don’t know if this word exists yet, but I’m coining it. 21st century Britain is a neo-classist society. One where the ideology of social mobility exists as a facade to maintain a social hierarchy.

Makes sense, just like class solidarity exists for the rich.