Instead of complaining, that the urban poor are so disorganised and fragmented nowadays, so impoverished and neglected that they have become a problem for any class fomation to battle the class struggle from above, you're lamenting how uncivilised they are. Instead of realising, that it's not manners or lectures about manners that poor people need, but overcoming of pauperism and self-contempt to get organised, you choose to critisize the lumpenproletariat. That fits in neatly with Berlin's official stance on the problem, having mayor Wowereit deploring the complacency and non-ambitious attitudes of unemployed and poor people in Berlin. Phrases like "Self-righteousness about their incapacity, their unemployment" are really the worst, most classist I have ever read from you. Disguising the contempt for the underclass with an cultural-ethnic argument then, trying to link their behaviour to some sort of barbaric, uncivilised tribe tradition is the icing on the cake. And adding to the decomposition of the underclass you introduce an alleged asset of the migrant community, the religious constraint of prohibition. That's pathetic.
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Dickensian turn?
Date: 2010-01-23 01:41 pm (UTC)Disguising the contempt for the underclass with an cultural-ethnic argument then, trying to link their behaviour to some sort of barbaric, uncivilised tribe tradition is the icing on the cake.
And adding to the decomposition of the underclass you introduce an alleged asset of the migrant community, the religious constraint of prohibition. That's pathetic.