Briana 
30. Black since 1502. Bisexual 
Salem Had It Coming 
Former Midwesterner (GRxMI) full of burning love on Southern Paiute land. She/Her.
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Less than 10% of ppl in the military are working class and less than 20% are middle class. A conversation that reenforces this myth that It’S POOR PPL GOING TO WAR without framing the info properly is irresponsible, esp if it insinuates the “Working Class Racist” myth. https://twitter.com/degendering/status/1269280478017785856 …pic.twitter.com/Vwjjlxsp0V
*Any* white person of *any* class can be an exploitative, imperialist, white supremacist fascist and all whites benefit and participate, but it is not EXCLUSIVE to “Poor d*mb white people,” as you can see here it is the game of the comfortable, well off and elite as well.
When poor people are preyed upon and pushed to enlistment is wrong! Absolutely! But they make up 10% of the military........so say that. They are UNDERREPRESENTED bc middle class and rich ppl are more than happy to enforce and defend their own fascist settler interests abroad.
“Rich imperial fascists who wanna kill abroad” is the angle here.
I want to be clear that I say this not to absolve white working class people from their participation in imperialism and warmongering, but to say the “working class racist recruits” myth is infantalizing and apologetic to poor whites that enlist....
....and erasing of the fact that it isn’t even them overwhelmingly that enlist. This framing along with “BIPOC in military” helps reduce convos about enlistment into IDPOL apologism-“you can’t criticize anyone in the military bc they are poor and/or of color!” It’s just not true!
Looking at other charts, where enlistment peters off again is after the 85,000 ish median income mark, so the ULTRA RICH enlist less than middle class and rich people, but I believe still at higher rates than VERY poor people (less then 30,000 a yr) https://www.cna.org/pop-rep/2017/summary/summary.pdf …
I mean from what I’ve seen this seems right. I’m one of the only working class whites in my company.
I’d be interested to see how these racial and class lines factor into their position within the army. Like where are the majority of the superior officers coming from, because I’m guessing it’s not the bottom of the social ladder
I don't think that there's enough data here to draw this conclusion. By 06 the United States had already been in Iraq for 3 years and Afghanistan for 5. It's possible that lower-income classes are over represented in new enlistees in the early days of these wars.
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