[lbo-talk] class and credit

Shane Taylor shane.taylor at verizon.net
Mon Jul 21 14:54:19 PDT 2008


shag:


> where is the "tacky" in this video?
> i couldn't find it.

By Tanta's reading, the visual cues to Times readers are "the repeated panning on the tchochkes, the six! perfectly unnecessary shots of chubby Diane smoking, the capture of the chain-link fence." Among the urban professionals I know in DC, all of those are openly frowned upon. And as Tanta says elsewhere, with only a slight exaggeration, "In America in 2008, nothing labels you 'underclass' more than being a smoker."

Shane



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