We need to start being PC about the white working class

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"We need to start being PC about the white working class"

tWhen I started university in Britain in 1988, political correctness didn’t exist. If a woman tried to speak at a students’ meeting, the cry would go up, “Get your tits out for the lads!” The ritual climax of bar conversations was a double entendre about homosexuality. But, in 1993, I went to study in the US and discovered PC. The American students I met didn’t make racist, sexist or homophobic jokes. When I returned home and told British friends about this strange new world, they explained that it was because Americans were humourless. This wasn’t actually true. The Americans were much funnier than the Brits with their eternal gay jokes.

The attempt to shut out any views deemed undesirable has since got out of hand on some US campuses. On recent visits I have found the policing of speech chastening. One liberal, male, feminist professor told me of a fairly anodyne analysis that he didn’t dare publish for fear of being hounded as sexist. Even many liberals now want to roll back PC speech codes.

But, in fact, PC’s basic demand — respect all groups — needs to be rolled out more widely. We now have PC for women, and racial and sexual minorities. If we had it for the working classes, too, that could change the political climate. Two rather different politicians — Donald Trump and Nelson Mandela — have shown us the outlines of a working-class PC.

TV programmes in western countries rightly don’t make fun of blacks, gays or Jews any more, but the white working class (WWC) enjoys no such protection. A genre of “poverty porn” TV (think Benefits Street and Wife Swap in Britain) mocks the WWC as wasters enjoying their morning beers on the sofa.

The WWC are known as chavs in Britain, canis in Spain and “white trash” in the US. Chav-based fancy-dress parties — a distant relative of “blackface parties” — enjoyed a brief fad among British students. Prince William attended one while at his military academy, Sandhurst, as Owen Jones recounts in Chavs, his 2011 book on the demonisation of the working class in Britain.

But the WWC are excluded more often than they are insulted. They get screened out of elite settings based on their accents, first names, clothing, diet, schools, geographical origins (“flyover states”) and sometimes even their body weight. JD Vance, who somehow made it from the WWC to Yale Law School, describes in his book Hillbilly Elegy a recruitment dinner for a Washington law firm where applicants were essentially tested on whether they knew how to order wine and use a butter knife. The aim, obviously, was to keep out hicks. “Diversity” — a PC mantra of American and British elites — doesn’t seem to include WWC people. If they do get recruited, they often get paid less.

Many in the WWC feel that the elite pays respect to every minority except theirs. The fuss made on Fox News and in the Daily Mail over an imagined “war on Christmas” is, in part, a demand for respect for the WWC’s cultural traditions. For years, when the WWC was recognised as a group pre-Trump and pre-Brexit, it was often just to be accused of enjoying “white privilege” — not something they feel they’ve had much of lately.

Many WWC people now vote populist not because they are racists, nor because they imagine the populists will magically solve their problems, but because populists give them respect while simultaneously dissing the snobs. When Trump goes on about the virtues of steelworkers, he sounds like a Russian revolutionary in 1917. Meanwhile he pummels the PC non-WWC media.

Trump won’t bring back the old steel jobs. But he knows that winning elections nowadays isn’t about “the economy, stupid”. It’s about language. This is one thing liberals can learn from him. Hillary Clinton’s pro-WWC policies counted for nothing after she called some of Trump’s voters “deplorables” — typically, at a closed-doors fundraising event for LGBT causes where she presumed no WWC people would be present. It was at another fundraiser in San Francisco in 2008 that Barack Obama spoke of “bitter” jobless small-town Midwestern voters who “cling to guns or religion”.

Respect matters. Mandela understood this viscerally, because respect was one thing apartheid denied to black people. He built a political strategy on respecting his opponents. While jailed for 27 years by Afrikaners, he learnt their language, studied their history and ended up persuading them to give him the keys to South Africa.

Mandela also showed us what a realistic, modern, working-class PC could look like. Hardly any working-class people today are steelworkers. Far more of them work as carers, cleaners and cashiers. Mandela grasped that. As South African president, he would stand up if the tea lady walked into his room, and remain standing until she left. In jail, he had shown equal courtesy to his WWC guards: Mandela’s respect was race-blind.

Once, in London, he visited the offices of the PR firm handling South Africa’s account. He said a cheery hello to the firm’s directors, who were lined up at the front door to receive him, but he then continued down the corridor, walked into the porters’ room and greeted the surprised denizens like long-lost friends. It will take a politician like that to win back the WWC.

Whitey invented PC to silence the truth about his own crimes against actual humans.

[quote] TV programmes in western countries rightly don’t make fun of blacks, gays or Jews any more, but the white working class (WWC) enjoys no such protection.

They don't fucking deserve any. They are an oppressor class, and having sympathy for them is like having sympathy for impoverished families that used to be rich from the slave trade.

We need to get rid of PC altogether and acknowledge that the white heterosexual gentile really is the devil.

Again, it's the trolls fucking trolling. They can't divide the dems, so now they're spotlighting race. I've got them all on block and they keep fucking trying.

[quote]A genre of “poverty porn” TV (think Benefits Street and Wife Swap in Britain) mocks the WWC as wasters enjoying their morning beers on the sofa.

The so-called left created this class of white parasites by fulling their heads full of entitlement.

Anyone who believes the oppressor classes deserve respect, empathy, or consideration for their nonexistent feelings is not only a troll but an enabler of systematic oppression. Working class whites really ARE inferior to people of color of any class, and saying otherwise would be lying.

Not all "stereotypes" are equally offensive, and acting all huffy for reading white heterosexual gentiles to the filth they are, always have been, and always will be makes you a racist, an antisemite, and a homophobe.

r9 that kind of idiotic posturing is the root of the problem. Unemployed coal miners are not 'the oppressor classes' just because they might be white.

R9 demonstrates the type of trolls activated by hatred. Blanket generalizations are a clue.

Oh yes they are, R11. Their whiteness gives them privileges not even Barack Obama had as President.

F&F then block the troll at R2/R5/R6/R8/R9/R10

F&F, punch and delete the racist sexist antisemitic homophobic ableist stalker at R14.

Q: How many cracker breeder goyim does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: None, they're too busy burning crosses because they can't make their slaves do it for them anymore.

Anyone who reads someone [bold]to[/bold] filth is to be read [bold]for[/bold] filth.

I've looked into the listing re: trolls that I've blocked. It appears that there is a troll posting multiple threads from multiple IDs. Seems the DL is under assault from the alt-right troll with several laptops and a phone. Name-calling is their forte, fuckery their only solace. Pity the lonely asshole in his bunker of fear.

[quote]Blanket generalizations are a clue.

Sometimes blanket generalizations are correct. Blanket generalizations about oppressor classes are always correct and fair and always will be.

Lol @ the working class being the oppressor class. Do people read what they type? The idea that poor whites have the leverage to oppress others seems to be the biggest lie pushed by the PC crowd.

The only privilege on this planet is class.

The OP outed itself as a racist lackey of the white-hetero-gentile oppressor class.

[quote]The idea that poor whites have the leverage to oppress others seems to be the biggest lie pushed by the PC crowd.

It is as far from a lie as it gets. It's the truth, it's actual, and if you want everything to be satisfactual we need to admit that all white heterosexual gentiles, rich and poor, are privileged, and that they have forfeited their privileges through their words and deeds towards gays, Jews and people of color.

That was a rambling incoherent article - and a bunch of nonsense.

blanket statement made about blanket statements just prove my point, stupid fuck at R19. I'd let you keep rambling if I didn't know we now live in a fucked up state of insanity where your shit is now considered worthwhile because the morons now have numbers and multiple ISPs.

The only whites who face oppression are gay whites who get oppressed more for being gay than for being white.

Poor whites get the shit same as poor blacks and browns, R24. Shut the fuck up.

I can tell you one thing: they certainly don't give a shit about being PC towards anyone different from them. Why should we extend to them a favor they do not extend to us?

[quote]I can tell you one thing: they certainly don't give a shit about being PC towards anyone different from them. Why should we extend to them a favor they do not extend to us?

Because you don't want Republicans in charge of the country for the rest of your life. Whites are the majority. They control everything. Keep shitting on them and there will be consequences. Trump was one of them.

Now that Joe Biden has a mandate from the American people to lead, we see how foolish OP looks.

Fuck whoever bumped this OLD racebait thread

We need to start doubling down on the criticism of wypipo, especially white women.

Interesting article, albeit 3 years old, OP! And how awesome that most of the posts above are proving the EXACT point the article is trying to make.

Fuck off, OP.

R24, white women aren’t allowed to say anything in public in anymore, lest they be branded “Karens”.

I agree OP. Good post.

Facts

Well - in Britain, the class differentiation is to an extreme. It's disgusting - and, yes, I would agree that working class Brits have a VERY difficult time getting ahead with the way they speak and a million other differentiators.

It's their class system that's the problem. It exists in the US, but not nearly to the same degree. Not even close.

This is a British article about the British people - but I don't believe it holds true for the US.

>>When Trump goes on about the virtues of steelworkers, he sounds like a Russian revolutionary in 1917.

Great line!

I agree with the premise of this post. The scorn and contempt that so-called 'woke' liberals pour on the white working class is in itself contemptible. If you don't treat people with respect, they become your enemy.

R9, ALL people of colour? Shall we begin with murderous illegal Honduran gangs? Or the locals who fill the violent crime statistics in Baltimore, Chicago, and St Louis and Detroit?

OP = BORIS

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