White Working class- what does it mean you?

[mrsruffallo]

Love this article by Tim Lott
www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/tim-lott-white-working-class-ndash-and-threatened-with-ex tinction-793367.html
Rings very true to me

Nothing then, huh?

Have it in a pile of 'things to read' and the newspapers....... Will put it to the top of the pile!!!

I thought it was interesting. And I agreed with some of what he said. DH's grandfather was a case in point. One of the most considerate and decent human beings I've ever had the pleasure to know. He was a Thames lighterman all his life. He was good friends with his Asian neighbours for the last 20 yrs of his life and was, as far as I could see, accepting of everyone. But in his 80's he was struggling to cope with the place that East Ham had become - partly because he was then in the minority and everything had changed so much. He felt as if 'his kind' had been swept away.

I think people find it hard to tackle as it isn't a very PC topic.

Thanks for flagging that up - very interesting article, and I can't say I can disagree with it!

It's clearly not a topic people like to talk about for fear of the intellectually-redundant'R' tag which is thrown with such gay abandon. Witness the sparse responses on here and the Indy talkboards.

Link not working for me

...interesting to read Yasmin A-B's 'Rivers of Blood' article in there too today as a counterpoint. This whole subject seems to be tied up in knots you just can't disentangle..

I really enjoyed this article. My grandad and grandma were working class - people who educated themselves (a fine WC tradition), worked damn hard and had little to show for it because someone else was creaming off the profits. They were decent people among decent people, who were vehemently against prejudice (having fought against it during WW2). And they did everything they could, again in fine WC tradition, to give my mother 'opportunities' - for the education they were denied and for a life where she could choose what she wanted do and make her own decisions, not be cowed by those in authority.

So many MC people seem to sneer at the WC, badging them as racists (yeah, clearly MC people are immune from this) or wife-beaters (ditto) etc. etc. Shovelling shit on the WC while complaining about the smell.

I clicked on the 'interested? find out more' or whatever it's called button at the bottom expecting to find responses but just got a blank box, dammit.

Agree edam. Will post more later [bedtime!!]