Date: 25 Jun 2012 07:31 am (UTC)
lilacsigil: 12 Apostles rocks, text "Rock On" (12 Apostles)
From: [personal profile] lilacsigil
Well, I disagree with that part - there's always been scholarship kids and kids from middle-class backgrounds, if not from working-class backgrounds - but I also disagree with the writer's implication that if you *know* you're a member of the privileged class, you are more socially aware about the rest of society. Wealth buys insularity, and the story of the self-made man (who just happened to have an awful lot of societal support) is hardly new.

But I do like the comment about laundering privilege - largely the same people have the privilege but are using the stories of the few others they let in to make them feel like they earned it.
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