Livre d'Or

Mm, the Church ladders essay is very helpful too, thank you for digging it out of the depths of defunct blogs. It has gender analysis too, which is definitely one of the threads I'm trying to pull on here. I can see how that central idea of work as a theater for masculine dominance can be used to create animosity between working class people and middle class people who may in fact be nearly as badly off financially.

I don't think I'm falling into the propaganda trap of assuming that working class people are all racist and homophobic, indeed I believe that the working class is diverse and that's why I don't see bigotry as being a good trade-off for elevating working class people. But it makes sense of the "but what about the working class?" response to any kind of liberal activism: it's not aimed at me, it's aimed at manipulating working class people into distrusting me and the groups I'm politically aligned with.