Being willing to sacrifice/contribute to causes in a way that benefits your immediate community/people around you is a blue collar thing. Doing so in a way that benefits abstract/global causes is a middle class thing.
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If we are honest, we can admit that self isolation,
#staythefuckhome and other measures resemble other middle class moral crusades. And yes, there are clear instances of them being applied arbitrarily and overzealously. Not to suggest they aren't important or necessary.Show this thread -
Also, we should admit that it is increasingly obvious that governments went into the shutdown hitting the panic button with no plan to return to normal.
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To wrap this thread up: People chafing under lockdown might be wrong, but they have real and pressing concerns. Dismissing them as racist rednecks is not helpful. And if this goes on much longer, there will be real civil unrest.
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