sabot-sister:

shit working class leftists and ppl in general don’t need to hear:

– you making fun of our schooling

– you belittling us for working actual jobs instead of going into higher education

– you complaining that we don’t “do enough about our situation”

– you looking down on us because we might not have the time or the patience to read heaps of irrelevant political theory

– again, these fucking jokes about us having no idea about politics when we’re the ones living them

– you patronizing us about health, parenting, and literally anything else

– you asking why our families didn’t just buy a house (that happened more often than you’d think)

– you making fun of our dialects and mannerisms

– you using a lack of education as an argument against your political opponents

– you pitying us like we can’t be proud of our roots

– you ignoring our self-organization and community work because it doesn’t live up to your ideological standards

– the fucking LEFT in general being classist as fuck which should be a paradox but isn’t

for real I’m just really fed up with the academic left sometimes and y’all should really look at yourselves first when you ask why the new left is so out of touch with working people.
We don’t have to read Marx to know that capitalism sucks. Believe us, we know.

This has been a PSA.

For every leftist space that welcomes teens and twenty somethings with the question “so which college did you go to?”