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In reply to the discussion: The last time "you people" was deployed in a presidential campaign: contempt and class and race [View all]nashville_brook
(20,958 posts)27. you make a very good point about assumed intimacy and servitude...they're "entitled" doncha know
They're entitled to treat us like shit. They're entitled to use us like objects. They're entitled to rob this country of its wealth and treasure. They're entitled to take away our jobs, our houses and retirements.
No one has stopped them. They're entitled, and that's a form of intimacy that supposes all that is "ours" they hold "first position" to. And who are we to argue? Our lives have been completely mortgaged to these monsters in the form of student loans, crappy jobs and a corrupt financial environment that's bleeding out our future.
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The last time "you people" was deployed in a presidential campaign: contempt and class and race [View all]
nashville_brook
Jul 2012
OP
i wonder if we're so numb to this...or if the media is sympathetic to the elite
nashville_brook
Jul 2012
#7
Of course not. She would have known that it is the people, the voters, who would
treestar
Jul 2012
#26
actually, the whole phrase makes it even worse: "we've given you all you need..."
nashville_brook
Jul 2012
#41
"You people" is offensive because it separates the speaker from those being spoken to with terms tha
JDPriestly
Jul 2012
#20
you make a very good point about assumed intimacy and servitude...they're "entitled" doncha know
nashville_brook
Jul 2012
#27
You People Should Retroactively Resign Yourselves to Kneel Before King Mitt
bucolic_frolic
Jul 2012
#21
elections are such pesky formalities for those with the Divine Right of Kings
nashville_brook
Jul 2012
#52
they're very good at keeping us divided on cultural issues, when money is all that matters to them.
nashville_brook
Jul 2012
#28
they're using her cynically, hoping that the "no attacking wives" immunizes her from criticism
nashville_brook
Jul 2012
#54
Divine Right of Kings: yesterday Mittens implied that his money was "God given"
nashville_brook
Jul 2012
#34
Ann(toinette) also said "there are so many things that will be open again for more attack”...
nashville_brook
Jul 2012
#43
the elite's privacy must be respected...while they read our emails and listen to our cell calls.
nashville_brook
Jul 2012
#53