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June 16, 2005
Today's Reading Assignment
Following a link from today's Lileks, I found an interesting article about the working class you should read: Poor, White and Pissed. While I disagree with his premise that working class should work with liberals to better their situation (I think liberals like having the working class right where they put them), he does many accurate observations about what the working class really thinks. Like this one:
But here in this particular heartland, once I step away from the fundamentalist, I am simply not seeing the homophobia so widely proclaimed by the liberal establishment. Hell, we've got three gay guys and at least one lesbian who hang out at my local redneck tavern and they all are right in there drinking and teasing and jiving with everyone else. As my hirsute 300-pound friend Pootie says: "Heck, I have a lot in common with lesbians!" (I would concede however, that homosexual marriage, however, was just a bit too much for some of the working class to accept in the 2004 elections. It was the visuals.
There's much more.
Go read.
Posted by Rita at June 16, 2005 05:59 AM