Sometimes being white, middle class, and from the home counties can be scary. Not in a fear for you life way, not as in how am I going to survive tomorrow kind of way, but never-the-less scary. Lets not forget that as with most things of this nature, the essence of fear is relative.
Being who I am and where I am from with my lifestyle and upbringing makes me hated. It makes me a target for a lot of vitriol. In that sense I feel a strange kinship with those who seem are very far removed from me, but who are the target of the vitriol of the flip side of the same coin, so called benefit scrounging scum.
Privately educated, you are clearly up your own arse, with a sense of entitlement the size of Jupiter Comfortably off, clearly you are tax cheating, thieving, scum who hides white collar, unspecified crimes under a layer of Prada and Channel. From the home counties, clearly you having everything and more and would rather kick a tramp than consider "giving back". Goodness forbid that you try and express and opinion, that you try and share your experiences, no-one can hear you because of the silver spoon in your mouth.
Maybe everyone who is shouting, be it about benefit cheats or toffee nosed rich kids, should just stop for a minute and consider the human beings behind the stereotype. Maybe if instead of relying of caricatures we should be thinking about how to turn people towards one another instead of away. Maybe we should look at the stories, not the generalizations.
But then I am spoilt little rich kid, so I am not entitled to an opinion.
Being who I am and where I am from with my lifestyle and upbringing makes me hated. It makes me a target for a lot of vitriol. In that sense I feel a strange kinship with those who seem are very far removed from me, but who are the target of the vitriol of the flip side of the same coin, so called benefit scrounging scum.
Privately educated, you are clearly up your own arse, with a sense of entitlement the size of Jupiter Comfortably off, clearly you are tax cheating, thieving, scum who hides white collar, unspecified crimes under a layer of Prada and Channel. From the home counties, clearly you having everything and more and would rather kick a tramp than consider "giving back". Goodness forbid that you try and express and opinion, that you try and share your experiences, no-one can hear you because of the silver spoon in your mouth.
Maybe everyone who is shouting, be it about benefit cheats or toffee nosed rich kids, should just stop for a minute and consider the human beings behind the stereotype. Maybe if instead of relying of caricatures we should be thinking about how to turn people towards one another instead of away. Maybe we should look at the stories, not the generalizations.
But then I am spoilt little rich kid, so I am not entitled to an opinion.
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