(3:55 AM)
"inessential weirdnesses"
It's not "them" - it's us! - on the exclusivity (and how to temper it) of middle class progressives.
It's very, very hard for progressive-middle-class activists to see our alternative subcultures as related to our privileged class status.
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Neither does a voluntarily low income turn you into a working-class person if you grew up in a professional-middle-class household and went to college.
