> At 01:36 PM 2/3/2010, James Heartfield wrote:
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> >Left wingers' fear and contempt for suburbanites, for the white
> >working classes, the chavs, 'mouth-breathers', i
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> You're projecting and imputing wildly here.
JH might have been painting with a slightly too-broad brush, but he's got a point. I'm hearing a good deal of loathing and contempt of hoi polloi (I should say twn pollwn, I guess) on this list and especially in this thread.
It always puzzles me to hear this from Lefties, because after all, in whom can we repose any hope *except* the Great Unwashed? Yet it's extremely common. Along with the notion that American Unwashed in general are crazier than Euro Unwashed.
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