Putting the Vulgar in Vulgar Marxism

This is a truly great moment of self-ownage:

I don’t think the police stop to ask whether someone’s middle class or not!

— Sarah Jones (@onesarahjones) March 4, 2019

The “Integrating Fortune 500 CEOs” bit is merely a tiresome strawman, one that doesn’t even apply to mainstream Democrats (unless you have an explanation for how, say, a massive expansion of public insurance for the poor or the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are idpol-not-class.) But the last quote…I think one could drop the mic after Jones’s response, but just…wow. One rarely sees class-not-race out there in the wild in such a pure form anymore.

…Great thread here:

"…with similar economic status live in dramatically different residential environments with blacks living in areas with higher crime rates, poor quality schools, higher poverty rates, lower property values, and severe racial segregation."

— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) March 4, 2019

…and here:

And so class developed not just an economic status, but as a racialized one. Whiteness — regardless of income became a class marker in and of itself — and remains so. Blackness became a permanent marker of inferiority in and of itself, regardless of class.

— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) March 4, 2019