It’s fashionable to rag on Bernie for being all about class. But I think Bernie is right in that we don’t notice class issues nearly often enough.
Take racial issues, for instance. Spoiled rich brats at Oberlin, Yale, etc are getting tons of coverage because they have learned to throw around the word “black.” (I’m convinced that their organizers, especially at Yale, are not even black, by the way.)
In the meanwhile, our black students from South Side Chicago, East St Louis, Ferguson, etc have their MAP grants stolen by Governor Rauner, and how much coverage do they get? These are young people who experience real hardship and who are trying to get an education. They are being massively defrauded by the state but does anybody care? No, we are all too occupied with the inauthentic sushi lunches of the spoiled brats.
So yeah, Bernie is onto something important.
Clarissa's Blog 
Simply being white in America and having a college degree qualifies us as among the most privileged people in history.
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The positivity is surely refreshing. 🙂
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So does being a black, or Hispanic, or Asian American with a college degree.
Simply being within American’s borders, where you’re not being bombed, or beheaded, or raped routinely, gives everyone here more privilege that he/she would find in most parts of the world.
Is that statement arrogant? Yes. It’s also true.
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My blog works miracles. It led an older white male Republican to check his privilege!
:-)))))
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Did I do THAT? I think I’m being misquoted. 🙂
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Actually, I’m not “checking” my privilege. I’m opening my arms and spreading it around to EVERYBODY from coast to coast, and from the Canadian border in the north to the Mexican border in the south (i.e., to include everyone who’s “simply currently living within America’s borders,” period).
Come on, Clarissa, you can’t get more egalitarian than that! 🙂
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Not sure if this blog is on your reading list (it should be), but…
http://www.germanimmigration.eu/2016/01/in-finland-you-cant-buy-a-wife-1.html
“Money quote: It is not the case that the ethnic German population contains a broad spectrum of human ability, while all other countries have only a fungible mass of equally-law-abiding, equally-talented, equally-teachable humans. Yet some version of this childish conceit is actually a guiding principle of German, Swedish, Norwegian, and Finnish immigration policy.”
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Absolutely, that’s precisely the tragedy of the whole thing. Under the guise of being anti-racist, open and inclusive, people sneak in the most offensive, dismissive policies imaginable. And it’s impossible to get them to stop because they have taken to silencing dissent by calling everybody who disagrees a Nazi or anti-immigrant.
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It has always been about class. It is more obvious now that we have only oligarchs and serfs.
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What did we say about using the words like “serfs” more carefully to avoid hurting people’s feelings? Remember?
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