Chuds think the fabled Liberal Arts Degrees are simultaneously career dead-ends and also pay a million dollars.
More importantly, they buy into a line of propaganda that only the rich and idle, those who have been chosen by the Calvinist God, have the privilege of studying something "useless"
That's because poor people get called lazy bums if they study art history. The rich "earned" it, you lazy pieces of shit need to WORK.
class class class class TRANS <record scratch>
what the fuck, dude. the only charitable interpretation I can come up with is an egg who internalizes their deprivation
At first I thought they were comparing the first example to a lower/working class trans person, which felt kinda weid but I could at least seeing it being made it good fath. Then I re-read it and barf
"Oh are you having a tough time? Have you heard about the Pain Olympics? Really puts your struggles in a perspective where I can belittle them" jesus how do these fucking assholes find the time to wriggle out of the woodwork when they're breaking their backs trying to kiss their own asses.
I recently figured out this mindset. They're people that are stuck in a mindset of viewing "the working class" as a cultural thing instead of a material thing. They see working class as a set of behaviours and attitudes instead of as a relationship between labour and the forces of production, as such they don't see the working class as people who simply sell their labour but as some ethereal cultural identity attached to a set of behaviours.
What is the set of behaviours they associate with being "working class" ? Being rough, talking like an 'ard man, not liking this idpol shit, and generally being reactionary.
This has been particularly effective in the UK and I'm seeing this attitude rise in the US. The goal is to basically change the meaning of "working class" in people's minds from "people who sell their labour" to "people who are reactionary".
It needs to be fought as much as possible. It is false consciousness.
It is false consciousness.
Oh wow, I think this is the first time this idea really clicked for me.
Once you wrap your head around it you also realise that it only takes correcting this false consciousness to flip literally millions of people.
There are a shitload of right wing reactionaries that actually inherently feel and agree with all the shit we say but are currently stuck in false consciousness. When false consciousness is broken down and corrected they will completely flood the left. The stupidpol types are another type of false consciousness, they're already nominally left but are still reactionary because of a lack of understanding of various parts of marxism.
They're all people that are conscious in a certain way, they're on the tipping point but have been misdirected. This is why I'm actually fairly optimistic. The current level of consciousness in society is underrated and when we finally break down some of these issues there's going to be a flood.
This has been particularly effective in the UK and I’m seeing this attitude rise in the US.
It's not rising in the US. It started here in the 60s. Anti-Communists used the Hippies as scapegoats in order to get the working class to stop supporting labor leaders and the New Deal coalition and start voting for radically right wing conservatives like Goldwater, Nixon, and Reagan.
John Dolan, the War Nerd, wrote an excellent article in the Exile that touches on this.
http://exiledonline.com/reagan’s-cheshire-snarl/
Brian, IQ or no IQ, was not going to UC Berkeley or anyplace else. None of those kids were going to Berkeley. None of their parents wanted them to. Some of those parents were sick monsters like Brian’s dad, or my friend Calvin’s dad, who once interrupted Calvin’s sleepover birthday party to chase Calvin around the yard with the inevitable belt. Most of the others were just standard human issue: mean, dumb, resentful. They didn’t want the fanciful pre-Raphaelite hippie enclave of Berkeley to exist. That it should not merely exist but talk back to their appointed masters, the real-estate developers and car dealers who were the anointed of California, provoked these people to insane rage.
Dolan's friends who "were never going to Berkeley" grew up to be the Chuds we know and love today.
Gotta teach em all the real classes and we've got to use the correct terms for them, proletariat, bourgeoisie, artisans, petty bourgeoisie, lumpenproles.
It's the only way. Part of the reason this false consciousness has been effective is because "working class" has been possible for the media to slowly reclassify. Proletariat will not.
What's a trans college? Is it a college that is trans or is it some place where you learn how to be trans and get a trans major? Sounds kinda dope tbh, "I majored in trans, and I am currently doing my PhD in catgirl".
I think that comment filled out my, "internet reactionary fixation", bingo card.
So what do think comrades? Stupidpol or cumtown?
If you have a Pigpen-style dust cloud floating around you at all times and carry a giant wrench over your shoulder, that's working class
You have to look like the beefcake in 1930's IWW propaganda posters.
