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Your description of the article was something like "posh bird complains about Brexit", it was hardly nuanced.
How about the university workers striking over their pensions? What was the left wing argument for calling them lazy and trivialising their issues?
If you want a discussion about privilege where people consider things critically, "posh bird" was maybe not the ideal opening gambit
frankenbike-
If you want a discussion about privilege where people consider things critically, "posh bird" was maybe not the ideal opening gambit
Agreed, it's a bit heavy-handed, particularly on this forum, although at the time I think I was trying to be deliberately provocative.
How about the university workers striking over their pensions? What was the left wing argument for calling them lazy and trivialising their issues?
I don't believe I called all university workers lazy, just some, which at the time I explained was based on my own observations during a brief career in academia.
In terms of a left wing argument regarding the issues faced by university workers - if you really wanted to you could take up a position that higher education has been commodified, and those who benefit from that process have directly benefited for the exploitation of another group (students) for their own financial gain. I think it's a consideration that many students are basically being ripped by the current system and that there is a relatively large academic 'class' that's doing quite nicely thank you on the back of that.
Worth a thought at least, no?
Jingle_Jangle
I think I've repeated myself a few times. I'm not in favour of inequality, and I think we should consider things critically. This is particularly true where people in privileged or powerful positions are concerned.
In terms of the hotelier, my basic position was that she was a member of the bourgeoisie who was bemoaning the fact that she now found it difficult to get hold of proletarians to exploit.
How in the hell do you work out that to be a right wing position?