Y’ know how the point in Oliver Twist is that working class people are just as good as posh ones (sorta) but in order to make Oliver sympathetic Dickens gave him a posh background and most importantly gave him a posh accent and wrote his speech in a posh dialect?
It’s interesting to me how working class people are only sympathetic, are only relatable, are only given cultural space when they can speak bourgeoisie.
It’s part of why so many groups push respectability politics.
which sucks cause like it seems to help but actually like cooperating with the bourgeoisie will never result in actual liberation for the majority of a group (also if you haven’t read Joy James’s Radicalizing Feminism I think you’d fucking LOVE it)
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 