Quote: (10-07-2015 06:20 PM)Constitution45 Wrote:
These people don't really have any conviction, if it really was a struggle or desperate issue then you wouldn't be seeing them smiling like that. Its a fashion thing, I know some of these people personally, I actually recognize the guy on the far right of that photo from sometime ago. They will take photos of them doing a protest and post it on Facebook. They feign outrage but it genuinely means nothing to them. A lot of them grew up listening to music and musicians from the 60s/80s when this counter establishment stuff was the fad. They don't realise that they now are the establishment. If they wanted to be truly radical and trendy, then they would ditch feminist, multiculturalism, and go to marry mormons or if they are males, then they would grow a set of balls and join the 'neo masculine movement'.
The working class just doesn't exist anymore, even the Poles who came over to work in the labour industry a few years back have even gone back home or managed to climb up the social ladder. Let alone the native Brits. You have an aspiring middle class and underclass. The closest thing you will get to having a working class is more of a temporary stage in which people usually drop or accelerate from. All of this Charlotte Church 'I come from a working class background and used to get free lunches in school' is absolute rubbish.
Real working class people don't show off about this unless they are rappers. The working class is like some sort of weird forbidden fruit for the middle class trendy types in Britain. They will imitate their accents during university or perhaps later during their 20s when they decide to settle in a gentrified area. But in reality they just don't have anything in common with them. For one poor people are nationalistic, it doesn't matter if they are muslim, white or black; they have strong connections to their nationality or local tribe. Onto a second point they are doers not thinkers, so don't get me started on how relations between men and women are viewed. You will never meet a 'working class feminist'.
On to a last point, which is related to the on going Migrant crisis. When you look at most ethnic groups aside from Black Brits, they actually do very well for themselves. Even among muslims, on the surface their communities are poor and run down, but you will always see that they look out for themselves. Selling businesses to other muslims, or sending money back to Pakistan that will lead to big houses and vast amounts of wealth. Hindus live in relatively a strong diaspora, you wouldn't believe how much they operate by their own economy.
The be all end all is that these goofy idiots are essentially useful idiots. God every intelligent person and their dog understand truly that multiculturalism, environmentalism and feminism are 'progressive' causes just to push political agendas. I.e. Big oil companies will pay environmentalists to campaign against their competitors pipeline plans while maintaining that they care for the environment. Anyone who believes that political correctness or these left wing causes have any real merit are just usually the ignorant offspring from sheltered families.
I don't know why you are focused on 'working class' as opposed to middle class. The 2007-2008 financial crisis and subsequent slowdown (which is still going on--the recession is technically over but Britain and Europe are still experiencing slow growth at best) hit the middle class as hard as anyone. Why must you be 'working class' to have legitimate concerns about stupid economic policy? Why does it matter if you work in a factory or a service industry? You work for a living, you stand to lose your job in a slowdown or at the least experience a flat income. Blue collar or white makes no difference.