Thanks Andy Borowitz.
Like the good lefty I am, I hate WalMart and the Waltons in particular. But unlike most lefties, I don't hate the people who are forced to shop at places like that because they don't make enough money to have a choice. That classassholes disdain their dress? Not a surprise since superclassassholes make the rules and demeaning people is a tool of the system of class oppression that keeps people in their assigned roles. That's old. And not funny.
To be fair to Andy, I think he took that post down shortly after the assholery started. I've seen him take down other things too. Perhaps he needs a FB editor?
The title of this blog post is a joke. Everyone is welcome to my new blog about social class and the media. By media, I mean everything you might think of: ads, magazines, tv news, facebook...anything that speaks to a mass audience and therefore influences our culture. And for social class, I use the definition posted at Class Action: Social class is relative social rank in terms of income, wealth, education, status and/or power.
I know this definition experientially. I grew up working class and married into wealth. Money didn't give me any status or power. It eventually gave me access to education. I'm still culturally the person I was brought up to be: direct, emotional and honest.
Welcome.
