I just want one of these motherfuckers to tell me what qualifies as middle class. Is it income? Is it homeownership? Is it net worth? Is it category of professions? Is it a lifestyle? Fucking tell me. Tell me if I'm in it or out of it. Y'all claim you stand for the middle class, well? What is it then? What exactly do you stand for?
They'll never fucking tell you what they mean when they say middle class, because if they did then people would be like "oh fuck these people they're going to let us all die."
If the term were to have any meaning at all, I'd peg it at homeownership myself - but with that as the benchmark it would lose all of its rhetorical power. I only have one friend who has managed to buy a house (i.e. take out a loan of hundreds of thousands of dollars). No one else I know is even close. We'll all be renters until we die, unless we end up in prison first.
It also has rhetorical power: a "middle" implies a top and a bottom, and given that nobody likes to think of themselves as poor (shame) and given that if you openly admit to being rich, you're expected to share more, almost everyone claims to be middle class. A nice result of that classification is that it erases the concept of the working class, which at best becomes synonymous with the upper part of the lower class.
I just want one of these motherfuckers to tell me what qualifies as middle class. Is it income? Is it homeownership? Is it net worth? Is it category of professions? Is it a lifestyle? Fucking tell me. Tell me if I'm in it or out of it. Y'all claim you stand for the middle class, well? What is it then? What exactly do you stand for?
They'll never fucking tell you what they mean when they say middle class, because if they did then people would be like "oh fuck these people they're going to let us all die."
If the term were to have any meaning at all, I'd peg it at homeownership myself - but with that as the benchmark it would lose all of its rhetorical power. I only have one friend who has managed to buy a house (i.e. take out a loan of hundreds of thousands of dollars). No one else I know is even close. We'll all be renters until we die, unless we end up in prison first.
It's only ever used as a euphemism, and it could mean basically anything depending on the context.
It also has rhetorical power: a "middle" implies a top and a bottom, and given that nobody likes to think of themselves as poor (shame) and given that if you openly admit to being rich, you're expected to share more, almost everyone claims to be middle class. A nice result of that classification is that it erases the concept of the working class, which at best becomes synonymous with the upper part of the lower class.
well if anything, we definitely know the middle class means white people