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  1. "All these billionaires, for their alleged diversity, share a class preference for the leftmost option to be an Obamacare requirement to buy private insurance, rather than a leftist solution like national health insurance.

    [...]

    McGinnis is also living in an idealized world of charitable billionaires, who believe in 'giving back.' In fact, giving back has fallen out of fashion among today’s elites."

    currentaffairs.org/news/you-ca

    🧵 3/3

    #classism #poverty

  2. "McGinnis finesses this dubious equation of academic cache with billionaires’ cash by resorting to incredibly vague language, often using 'clout'[...]. It is incredibly unserious, because 'clout' is not a measurable or even clearly defined thing. McG is guilty of obfuscating hierarchy, & not very convincingly. Frankly, we prefer it when conservatives outright celebrate real hierarchy, as many of the right’s leading philosophers have long done."

    currentaffairs.org/news/you-ca

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    #classism #poverty

  3. RE: mutualaidspace.org/118539-2/

    🌟Disabled people exist🌟 and it's really expensive to exist as a disabled person jfc. You know how long I have gone without meds in favour of having the ✨️luxury✨️ of eating something at all? How far into 2026 are we right now? That's how long I have gone without meds.
    #mutualaid #poverty #disability #healthcare @[email protected] @[email protected] @disability
    #classism #disabilityjustice

  4. RE: mutualaidspace.org/118539-2/

    🌟Disabled people exist🌟 and it's really expensive to exist as a disabled person jfc. You know how long I have gone without meds in favour of having the ✨️luxury✨️ of eating something at all? How far into 2026 are we right now? That's how long I have gone without meds.
    #mutualaid #poverty #disability #healthcare @[email protected] @[email protected] @disability
    #classism #disabilityjustice

  5. A sense of White Entitlement backed by a classist society that does not want Working class kids doing as well as Middle Class kids.

    That strain of Anti-Intellectualism which makes sure Working Class kids don't think beyond their station.

    The bigots are jealous of minority communities who do better than they do even with the institutionalised racism of British Society, they expect wealth to be handed to them on a plate just for being White.

    theguardian.com/education/2026

    #Classism #Whiteness

  6. A sense of White Entitlement backed by a classist society that does not want Working class kids doing as well as Middle Class kids.

    That strain of Anti-Intellectualism which makes sure Working Class kids don't think beyond their station.

    The bigots are jealous of minority communities who do better than they do even with the institutionalised racism of British Society, they expect wealth to be handed to them on a plate just for being White.

    theguardian.com/education/2026

    #Classism #Whiteness

  7. “Some of my students might say that class doesn’t really exist or doesn’t matter any more, that there’s this idea we’re in a meritocratic society and everyone’s got equal access to opportunities and so on and so forth,” she said. “Whereas when we look at something like this we see quite clearly the different socioeconomic brackets speak differently in different ways.”

    I bet they're the privileged, middle class ones...
    theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/j

    #Classism #UK #SocialMobility #Manchester #Language

  8. “Some of my students might say that class doesn’t really exist or doesn’t matter any more, that there’s this idea we’re in a meritocratic society and everyone’s got equal access to opportunities and so on and so forth,” she said. “Whereas when we look at something like this we see quite clearly the different socioeconomic brackets speak differently in different ways.”

    I bet they're the privileged, middle class ones...
    theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/j

    #Classism #UK #SocialMobility #Manchester #Language

  9. @TheZooLady Ok, and are you offering to cover the added 20-30% rent that the extra bedroom will run minimum? How about you take your casual #classism and keep your shit opinions to yourself as you obviously have no fucking clue what you're talking about.

  10. @TheZooLady Ok, and are you offering to cover the added 20-30% rent that the extra bedroom will run minimum? How about you take your casual #classism and keep your shit opinions to yourself as you obviously have no fucking clue what you're talking about.

  11. White Fail-Bros....as far as the eye can see

    "give us one more chance, ah go,. ah go, ....ahhhh go on!"

    Remember, only White Blokey Blokes are the authentic Working Class, everyone else is a liar.../s

    inquirer.com/opinion/platner-f

    #Fetterman #Platner #Classism #USPol #USPolitics

  12. White Fail-Bros....as far as the eye can see

    "give us one more chance, ah go,. ah go, ....ahhhh go on!"

    Remember, only White Blokey Blokes are the authentic Working Class, everyone else is a liar.../s

    inquirer.com/opinion/platner-f

    #Fetterman #Platner #Classism #USPol #USPolitics

  13. Faster biological aging consistently linked to poverty and discrimination

    > By integrating findings from 140 studies and nearly 66,000 individuals, researchers from the Biosocial team at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in collaboration with Columbia University in NYC have shown that lower socioeconomic status and exposure to discrimination are consistently associated with accelerated biological aging, measured in the epigenome.

    phys.org/news/2026-06-faster-b

    #science #racism #classism

  14. Faster biological aging consistently linked to poverty and discrimination

    > By integrating findings from 140 studies and nearly 66,000 individuals, researchers from the Biosocial team at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in collaboration with Columbia University in NYC have shown that lower socioeconomic status and exposure to discrimination are consistently associated with accelerated biological aging, measured in the epigenome.

    phys.org/news/2026-06-faster-b

    #science #racism #classism

  15. On Pathologising Structural Criticism

    Pathologising structural criticism as anger lets power avoid accountability. This polemical personal-political essay argues for dignity, boundaries, and solidarity without self-abandonment, rejecting respectability politics that demand dispossessed people make harm sound polite before they are recognised as human within every collective struggle.

    wrzky.com/pathologising-struct

  16. On Pathologising Structural Criticism

    Pathologising structural criticism as anger lets power avoid accountability. This polemical personal-political essay argues for dignity, boundaries, and solidarity without self-abandonment, rejecting respectability politics that demand dispossessed people make harm sound polite before they are recognised as human within every collective struggle.

    wrzky.com/pathologising-struct

  17. RE: masto.ai/@sexworkpol/116537641

    👏👏👏💯🏆

    Sooo very much on point…

    The irony of white, cis, middle+ class people on cusyish jobs accusing sex workers of “being privileged” aside — there is A LOT underneath said accusation, which the article analyzes it wonderfully.

    #SexWork #Stigma #Classism

  18. RE: masto.ai/@sexworkpol/116537641

    👏👏👏💯🏆

    Sooo very much on point…

    The irony of white, cis, middle+ class people on cusyish jobs accusing sex workers of “being privileged” aside — there is A LOT underneath said accusation, which the article analyzes it wonderfully.

    #SexWork #Stigma #Classism

  19. Apropos of nothing; if you require a degree for a role that doesn't strictly need it (E.G., not a doctor, engineer, et cetera.) you're not an equal opportunity employer. #paperCeiling #classism

  20. Apropos of nothing; if you require a degree for a role that doesn't strictly need it (E.G., not a doctor, engineer, et cetera.) you're not an equal opportunity employer. #paperCeiling #classism

  21. RE: ecoevo.social/@benlockwood/116

    Dr. Lockwood has a sound point.

    Mastery-based #education has been shown to be more effective: Instead of holding fixed the duration to learn and varying the #learning outcomes (an inherently and irremediably classist and ableist colonial norm), vary the duration to learn and hold fixed the outcome of topic mastery.

    Learning only happens on the output side, but grade-based learning doesn’t promote learning: It promotes playing the system to maximize grades. Eliminate grades, and replace the competition and social sorting with cooperation and constructive education, and you get more learned students.

    Only trouble is, the ruling class controlling educational policy consider the social sorting a feature, not a bug: It is selective for their own children against others, thus reducing competition in the higher-paying and more power-proximate labour market. The resulting inequity is the system working as intended.

    Consider: who gets to provide their children unlimited access to predictably quiet and peaceful spaces, private tutoring, and anything else they need to maximize grades?

    Conveniently for most of them, due to the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status this social sorting reinforces, graded education also upholds white supremacy. Also conveniently for the most powerful of them, it bolsters #patriarchy and #eugenics as well.

    It should thus come as no surprise that the ruling class are promoting #AI — particularly, “generative” “AI” (read: plagiaristic content synthesis). By offering a shortcut to output without the cognitive effort to come up with said output themselves, it sabotages learning.

    Since children of poor and working-class families are most strapped for learning-conducive space and time, they’re most pressured to use #genAI. It is therefore their education most sabotaged in early grades, and them most likely to face expulsion from #PSE for #plagiarism if their AI-generated homework gets them admission.

    #pedagogy #classism #ableism #racism #sexism #eugenics