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Today it is more used to signify someone who is bigoted and ignorant, not someone who works on farms for 13 hours a day.
Also, if you valued education instead of abhored it, then right wingers might be able to do better than poor rural subsistence jobs.
That is unfair. I know many people with liberal arts degrees who have lousy jobs. I have issues with the hostility some have toward education, as well, but the job thing is hitting below the belt.
That is unfair. I know many people with liberal arts degrees who have lousy jobs. I have issues with the hostility some have toward education, as well, but the job thing is hitting below the belt.
It's also unfair because there are many people that chose trades instead of college. My dad never went to college, never made more than 50k a year. But his contributions to the organizations he was affiliated with were far reaching. I am extremely proud of him.
Some people certainly look down on blue collar workers. Common sense seems to be in short supply with them. Rather than admitting that they don't have a clue how to fix something (let alone which tool to use!) they become fixated on the fact that blue collar workers' often "need" their money to survive.
Plus, "rednecks" don't tend to care about what other people think of them so it is relatively safe to speak out against them.
IMO, people in general should do a lot less 'judging a book by its cover'. The guy who developed the neighborhood where I grew up (in the SF Bay Area), from the time he started until he died, always worked out of an office in his house. As time wore on, he switched more to owning apartment complexes. Into his late seventies + he would go out and work along with his maintenance crews. He hardly ever wore anything but jeans and a flannel shirt. When he died, he owned over 100 apartment complexes. He also had a bachelors and a masters from an Ivy League school. He was also a bleeding heart progressive EXCEPT when it came to something coming out of HIS pocket......in which case he was quite conservative. Towards the very end of his life, however, he realized his self imposed hypocrisy and became more generous personally.
That's how I see it. It's an entirely negative term. Apparently, some people enjoy being regarded as fitting the definition of it. They're just fine with living in a cultural stone age.
Seems like they are.
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