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Now this article was pretty good! Its called, ”Luxury Beliefs are the Latest Status Symbol.”
Exactly! I’ve been saying some similar things for many years now, just not quite so artfully, and I’ve been trying very hard not to get pulled into class warfare too, but dang so much of what is going on in our culture right now is really elitist! It’s also really bad for poor people.
There are a lot of reasons why marriage is important, but one is economic. Single parents are going to struggle more economically. The church is important for building community, meaning, purpose. MLK was a pastor, the civil rights movement was organized in churches. Heck, something like “fat acceptance” sounds good on the surface, but this is like accepting type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, cormorbidities. Its a luxury belief, one not rooted in genuine love for the well being of people.
In fact, everything the culture wants us to do right now is exceedingly bad for the poor and working class. If you follow the advice of these “luxury beliefs” you’re going to be miserable. Get married, raise children with two parents, go to church, and eat right, exercise, take care of your health.
Also, stay home with your kids, don’t chase wealth and the rat race, live simply, and pay less taxes.
I had a good cackle over this part, “Another luxury belief is that religion is irrational or harmful. Members of the upper class are most likely to be atheists or non-religious……Places of worship are often essential for the social fabric of poor communities. Denigrating the importance of religion harms the poor.”
Amen! Three cheers for that truth. Somewhere around here I have a post accusing atheists of being elitists trying to steal a lame woman’s crutch. Bit of snarkasm going on there, but I meant it, there is truth is those words. It really is immoral to run about trying to take away people’s foundation, attempting to kick their support system out from under them. Also, the Lord didn’t make me lame, He taught me how to walk upright in a fallen world full of broken people.
See, there's this thing called biology... 
Echoes of Joseph Bottum, *An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America.* That author also points out how recent it is that we have started calling members of the middle class “the elite.”
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“There are a lot of reasons why marriage is important, but one is economic. ”
Perhaps that is why the Marxist BLM manifesto originally included “encouraging the “disruption” of the “Western-prescribed nuclear family structure”.
“Another luxury belief is that religion is irrational or harmful. ”
Now, I find this to be precious. People who are institutionalizing gender dysphoria in minors are saying religion is irrational or harmful?
THAT is funny.
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Ha! Its a huge problem, Rob. Absolutely, the culture tells people sexual confusion and gender identity issues are good, going to church, having faith is not. Read an article the other day, kids now identifying as having gender issues has skyrocketed because that’s how you get your approval, your social status in the world. Like heteronormatuve is now a bad word.
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From the article…
Affluent people seldom have kids out of wedlock but are more likely than others to express the luxury belief that doing so is of no consequence.” Understatement of the week!
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Exactly. There are so many things like that, ideas, cultural notions inflicted on the poor that our elitist overlords don’t actually believe in themselves.
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This is timely. I was just thinking how most of the “elite” are leftist liberals. Yet, the Conservative Republicans always get labelled as the rich. I don’t know about you, but I’m still waiting for that win fall of cash to come my way. Even education has become something for the “elite.” Guess what school are open (and have been) 5 days a week? The private ones, religious and non-religious. So if you can pay ($30,000/year), your kids can learn. Hmmm…that doesn’t seem very equal opportunity now, does it? The bulk of the taxes and the giving in this country falls on the backs of the working class. Seems that will never change. Good thing I don’t look for luxury in material things.
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Exactly! Recently I read some tweets from a guy who had lost everything, was living in his truck, so he took a job as a janitor at this college and spent months cleaning up gum while listening to people who made ten times as much as he did give lectures about the evils of privilege and oppression. Kind of amusing because his reason for leaving wokism and liberalism was, I became poor and none of this stuff made sense anymore.
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Great post, IB. The article was brilliant, too. It’s true that most of the “white privilege” started from weathy acedemic white liberals who write NYT Best Sellers with their virtue signaling. Definitely, luxury beliefs!
It’s a critically important point that the insane ideas coming from wealthy elites and leftist academia are harming the poor. And Bill Gates is at the top of that group.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/math-is-racist-training-bankrolled-by-bill-gates-foundation-which-refuses-to-say-why/
This leftist insanity was recently put into policy by the Oregon Department of Education. Kids will no longer be required to have the correct answer to math questions because, after all, math is racist! This is just another example of harming poor minorities. Not only is the policy itself racist (assuming poor minorities can’t learn proper math skills) but it will be devastating to their future well-being. These kids will grow up not being able to function in society, so they will be forever poor and enslaved by the left’s welfare state. Of course, that’s the real reason these policies are enacted in the first place. It has nothing to do with actual racism and it certainly has nothing to do with wanting what’s best for the poor child.
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Oh, good one, Mel! Absolutely, the bigotry of low expectations is a real thing in the world. How offensive and insulting.
I was just talking to someone about how we’re really extending that out to children of all races. Our expectations of kids in general are declining, both in education and in behavior, and they tend to respond and just live up to our really low expectations. I’m from gen x, we’re the latch key, left to our own devices generation, which has its drawbacks, but at least we didn’t need to be entertained 24/7 and supervised so we didn’t eat rocks. I’m laughing,
but it’s actually very sad because we internalize those hidden messages. The message is you’re incapable, incompetent, and the world is a dangerous place.
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