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Middle class professionals marry/partner with other middle class professionals, and generally their children have opportunities in life that someone from a more disadvantaged background may not have (a parent able to reduce their hours and bring up the kids at home, the ability to buy a house in the catchment area of a good school, work connections to get a work experience placement which looks good come university application time etc).
The "university for all" mantra of the Blair era hasn't changed that either, because there's a big difference in post-university prospects for someone who went to Oxbridge or even a Russell Group university and someone who went somewhere else.
I was grammar school educated and in some ways I'm quite surprised by the connections I'm still able to make because of that. The middle class of the country is a network of old boys.
I'm not saying you can't succeed through other channels, but I think it's quite easy for middle class people to say "we must help those less fortunate than us" knowing that your own children will still have an advantage.
People think they know better than experts, but then when they get themselves into trouble through their ignorance, the state rescues them.
They get to have their ignorant cake and eat it.
We can shout as much as we want and whoever makes the biggest noise gets the most reaction. That's what social media promotes. Any route to getting attention is as good as any other route. Short and simple is easiest.
Crap like Eastenders and the glorification of thugs started the rot thirty years ago.
I didn't have to put that last line - I just want to wind someone up.
Apparently, the Black Country flag is 'racist' and should be scrapped says Wolverhampton MP Eleanor Smith. Apparently, the design of the flag had been ‘a big mistake’ because it failed to represent the Black Country’s multi-cultural communities, only its industrial past.
Dumber than dumb ...
https://www.expressandstar.com/news/politics/2017/07/15/black-country-flag-is-racist-and-should-be-scrapped-says-wolverhampton-mp-eleanor-smith/#6RfsBFQgzRpGbJ3Q.01
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
The Fretboard - The only place I know where I can sit at the back of the class, be a disruptive element, show no aptitude or interest, and no-one gives a flying fuck!
And don't get me started on "rights". The whole debate has becvome perverted - a right is something enjoyed by someone who performs a duty, that seems to have become lost.
You got stereotyped by an education system and got pushed back. That's shit. But why denounce and stereotype a huge swath of the population?
Fret's first post at the top of this thread mentioned Mark Bauerlein and how a generation was being dumbed down by the online experience and how they celebrate the vapid. Bauerlein converted to Catholicism in 2012 (I suggest reading his blog on the experience). Personally I find the Kardashian antics vapid and I would put his religion in exactly the same bracket. There are quite a number of selkf-pronounced religious libertarians eager to smack down the younger generation: one wonders if some of it is down to the ever-decreasing numbers of young people getting involved in traditional Western Christian circles.
What are "basic human rights"?
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