> I never get this one. If you're middle class (bourg), then you're
> incapable of being radical -- a sentiment almost always uttered by a
> middle class bourg -- which is to say, someone from the
> professional/managerial strata.
In this sort of context, "middle class" is simply a derogatory epithet. No denotative meaning whatsoever.
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