I was reading this post on declining union membership at Sociological Images. I was struck by how rich people talk about working class people.
Let's see, shall we, by taking some standard tropes about the poor.
1.They have numerous babies with multiple partners
A picture of Donald Trump making an angry face while standing next to his current wife. Mr. Trump has 5 children by 3 different women.
2. They use fraud to milk the system for money that doesn't belong to them.
A picture of Bernie Ebbers, whose fraud cost MCI about 11 billion dollars and the jobs of about 20,000 people.3. They're hypersexed and lazy
Hugh Hefner in the ubiquitous robe. For the lazy part, you have to go google the stories about the baby oil anal sex for yourself. I feel gross just typing it.I could go on, but the more I google the more skeeved I get.
The point is, what we believe are truths about the awful stereotypes of poor people are really deflections made by skeezy rich white dudes to draw attention away from themselves.
