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Cirsium

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6. Are you kidding?

Reply to gulliver (Reply #4)

Sat Feb 21, 2026, 06:35 PM

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Rude? Snubbed voters? What does "middle class" mean to you? You are distinguishing it from "working class." Does that mean white collar versus blue collar, then? And it would be rude to white collar workers and snub them if we say working class but fail to say middle class?

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Blue pencil note on the term "middle class" [View all] gulliver Saturday OP

Context? snot Saturday #1

I only heard the "middle class" left out once by a leading Dem spokesperson gulliver Saturday #3

The correct phrase? Cirsium Saturday #2

It's "correct" in the sense of good manners and good politics. gulliver Saturday #4

This message was self-deleted by its author W_HAMILTON Saturday #5

Are you kidding? Cirsium Saturday #6

It is, however, kind of pandering to the US consumerists myth of themselves... haele Saturday #7