Re: ripening contradictions?

[Michael Eisenscher <meisenscher@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Moore frequently makes great sense, but his view of the "working
class" is about as stereotyped as that of many off-the-wall leftists.  To
listen to him, you'd think that the only real workers are "Joe 6-packs" who
hang out at bowling allies, stock car races, monster tractor meets, and
neighborhood bars.  News Flash: this is not 1952 and the working class and
the world are just a tad more complex than his oversimplified images,
however entertaining they may be.  While Mike is rubbing pot bellies with
the good ol' boys at the tavern, there are a lot of working folks whose
lives and interests are far more textured and interestings that he suggests,
and they are not all white guys into arm-wrestling and beer guzzling.  And
they don't all come from Flint, any more than from Berkeley or Cambridge.

Michael
(who grew up in good ol' working class Milwaukee, which at the time had more
bars per capita than any other city in the country)