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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This isn't to dunk on either of them. They both have their benefits and failure modes. Blue collar people are more likely to pick up hitchhikers, middle class people are more likely to be diligent recyclers.
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I live in a middle class neighbourhood, and my Facebook feed skews university educated/progressive/middle class. Social distancing/anti Covid 19 measures became rapidly high status and normative among the people I observe. There was a lot of sermonizing about it.
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The people who can self isolate/work from home comfortably also skew middle class. There's been a minor ongoing scandal about pipeline camps staying open. If you've ever worked a construction job, you know that safety standards are often well below what formal rules suggest.
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The people who are protesting about ending the shutdown are people who 1) cannot comfortably work from home 2) are not sure their jobs will still be there for them 3) are not used to mobilizing for threats that seem distant and abstract.
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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.1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow 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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