RE: working class? (was Re: Farrakhan invites gay speaker to MMM)

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:

An $150k software engineer lives by selling his work - but he does not have the attributes of the American blue collar vernacular and may be even foreign-born, so he “aint’ one of us” hence he is a yuppie not a working class.

Ok, so I haven’t gotten to the gym yet.

Why do you accept the definition of US working class as “blue collar” and native-born (and, reading between the lines, white)? Why not Latino janitors or Chinese-born waitresses? Why not cable TV installers of any demographic?

Doug

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