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| The Uber-Underclass |
| 2020-06-12 |
| America's political system is coming apart. Cities are once again burning because of the plight of what an older class of liberals used to call the underclass. They don't use that term anymore, and not just because lefties have to refresh their terminology to keep the educated class they have wrapped around their media outlets from realizing that the ideology they treat as progressive is older than the telegraph, but because the underclass consists of ghetto kids making nothing and NBA players. When the star of an HBO series is out there protesting on the front lines, when the sons and daughters of millionaires go to war with cops who couldn't afford to buy their shoes with a week's salary, when Black Lives Matter, an organization backed by the Ford Foundation, one of the country's wealthiest institutions, organizes the burning and looting of family shops, the underclass is a laughable term. The uber-underclass acts as if social mobility doesn't exist when it's been the beneficiary of the single greatest effort at subsidized social mobility in human history. There's hardly an institution, corporation, or government agency that hasn't put diversity in its mission statement. Contractors and colleges move minority applicants to the front of the line in this oppressive racist nation of ours. Those predatory corporations who, in the lefty narrative, are grinding the bones of the underclass, are out front cheering on the very people who are looting their stores. "Smash us," cry the capitalists. The uber-underclass cries that it's being oppressed, but who, besides the occasional police officer, who has undergone more diversity training than most college graduates, has body cams welded to every part of his uniform, and knows that one single smartphone video clip can destroy his life, is oppressing anyone? The government, the corporations, the media, academia, Bueller, Bueller? Is there a single institution in modern American life that isn't obsessively cheering on the rioters? The best evidence of that is that there's nobody standing between them and anything they want to take except the occasional exhausted officer nervously holding a shield in front of his face while facing a mob howling for his blood. The only form of oppression that still exists is one of those overworked public servants making chump change in exchange for risking his life to protect everyone else. ...We want to be good people. Not really in the biblical sense or any traditional American sense. We want to be the heroes of a Hollywood movie. We want to be the guys who sit in the balcony cheering for the underdog, not the smug fat rednecks or the capitalists in top hats who like things the way they are. We want to fight for change, and a better world, and all those things that fit so well on bumper stickers. Even the best of us is often quite stupid that way. We can't help it. It's our culture. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |