I’m not sure if they are consciously aware of it, but it is absolutely in the day-to-day rhetoric in a sort of micro-aggression format. If most U.S. liberals hear ‘working class’ they tend to associate it with hard labor work like the OP twitter post (and the implied association with hard labor work is that they are likely uneducated and conservatives therefore).
To give some more context:
People who grow up in the states are not socialized with the real meaning of class words but hear them thrown around often in mixed contexts. So they develop these odd associations mostly from the political class and some outspoken family members (we all have one or two right?).
It was a huge success of propaganda when the U.S. politicians stopped referring to a “working class” and started saying “middle class” instead. Now most people who aren’t rich or homeless think that they are in the middle class (thankfully some of the younger generations are starting to see through it!). Then when the politicians go to demonize the poor, you have the poor themselves (who don’t think they are the poor ones) going against their own best interests. You can find videos of people in the states living in the worst conditions but are still technically housed and will tell you that they are “middle class” with a straight face. There was a short doc I had seen on YT about it but I didn’t find it yet.
Source: was raised in the states and had to deprogram/reprogram a lot of these wrong-as-fuck definitions and associations. Now on the outside it’s even more obvious.
??? Is this actually a common opinion among Amerikan liberals?
I’m not sure if they are consciously aware of it, but it is absolutely in the day-to-day rhetoric in a sort of micro-aggression format. If most U.S. liberals hear ‘working class’ they tend to associate it with hard labor work like the OP twitter post (and the implied association with hard labor work is that they are likely uneducated and conservatives therefore).
To give some more context: People who grow up in the states are not socialized with the real meaning of class words but hear them thrown around often in mixed contexts. So they develop these odd associations mostly from the political class and some outspoken family members (we all have one or two right?).
It was a huge success of propaganda when the U.S. politicians stopped referring to a “working class” and started saying “middle class” instead. Now most people who aren’t rich or homeless think that they are in the middle class (thankfully some of the younger generations are starting to see through it!). Then when the politicians go to demonize the poor, you have the poor themselves (who don’t think they are the poor ones) going against their own best interests. You can find videos of people in the states living in the worst conditions but are still technically housed and will tell you that they are “middle class” with a straight face. There was a short doc I had seen on YT about it but I didn’t find it yet.
Source: was raised in the states and had to deprogram/reprogram a lot of these wrong-as-fuck definitions and associations. Now on the outside it’s even more obvious.
hoo boy
Was it this video? Not really a documentary, though
It wasn’t this video. It was mostly footage and interviews taken in the “deep south” of the U.S.
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