[A-List] 25 things you will hear if you try to talk about class

["Charles Brown" <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

25 things you will hear if you try to talk about class

The working class is disappearing
Class does not exist in America
Define working class
We're all really working class because we all work
My grandparents were working class
Can anybody cite statistics to show that a working class exists in
late capitalist America?
You wear your working class background like a badge of honor
Unions are obsolete
I read in the paper about a janitor who makes $50,000 a year - can you
believe that?
White working class people are racist, homophobic and sexist
But you don't look poor
Why are you so angry?
The men who work for my dad's construction company are all cheerful, happy
guys
You're just being divisive
I saw a woman in the grocery store buying lobster with food stamps
I know /you/ understand this, but you're different - most working
class people won't get it
Working class people don't read
You have a chip on your shoulder
Lighten up - white trash is hip
You're too smart to be working class
Once you get a college degree you're no longer working class
Nobody who lives in the suburbs is working class
You're not working class because you make too much money
You're not working class because you're not a manual laborer
You're not working class because you're on the Internet and working
class people can't afford Internet access because they don't have
enough money

...Why are you so angry?

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