So I Think Smug Bourgeois “Social Justice” Projects That Do The Whole “Working Class People Are Regressive and Must Be Reformed” Thing

thepeacockangel:

May serve the function of keeping working class folks divided and punching down.

Like “Ohohohoh, working class men are such misogynist brutes, not like us good sensitive bourgeois men” is a great way to make working class men hostile to women’s issues because they associate their discussion with class injury and also by acknowledging a bunch of forms of oppression but not acknowledging class they make it easy to use the ol’ “You’re dealing with reverse sexism/reverse racism/heterophobia/cisphobia/etc and that’s why your life is crappy and the people calling you out on being oppressive are actually oppressing you” line to misdirect class related anger

And the especially fucked up thing is from a praxis related viewpoint working class men are much more likely to share childcare and domestic chores… and in my experience treat women as much more equal than bougie dudes do

Which is not to say ya’ll can’t fuck up sometimes, you just fuck up statistically less than bourgois dudes.

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