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In reply to the discussion: Bay Area tech company caught paying imported workers $1.21 per hour [View all]redruddyred
(1,615 posts)no, I really try to avoid from making those kind of personal attacks as it tends to upset people and get my posts removed.
Maybe my Appalach. handle implies hillbilly, racist, bigot. I hope not.
oh yeah actually I'm a socialist dem from texas so I bear the brunt of that. but no it was not addressed to you. I was thinking more along the lines of NE comedians such as Stewart, Colbert, Maher, who on top of the white privilege thing, also have the upper-middle class thing going too.
speaking to both points, I think there's a bit of snobbery about the more upper class liberals who assume that everyone who counts is upper class and therefore wouldn't want to do lower class jobs, and also that all lower class people are "hilbillies" and therefore not smart enough to be liberals. actually I think it's at least partially their fault that people like sarah palin have been so successful.