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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look, DCUM being what it is, pretty much everyone on this site is MC/UMC.  We all know the importance of education, and most of us are doing pretty well for ourselves, or else we wouldn't be free to screw around on the internet during work hours.

The thing is, many of us also are from less privileged backgrounds, and the way that OP is using "working class" as as a slur is bound to rub some folks the wrong way.

I'm the PP whose aunt and uncle took a thoughtful and sensitive approach to nurturing my potential.  I'll be forever grateful to them for that, but you know what they never did?  They never made me feel like my parents were inferior to them just because my parents were working class.

Working class people work.  That's what they do.  They work hard, often physical, jobs.  Both of my parents worked twice as hard as I do, longer hours, for a lot less money.  While I sit at a desk all day, answer emails, make decisions, and use my brain, my mother continues to live with the effects of a work-related injury but she worked all the way to retirement and beyond.

So OP, you need to take a seat and look at how you are deploying language.  When I think about "working class values" I think about my parents and what they gave up for my siblings and I.  [/quote]

+ 1,000   My parents didn't go to high school, let alone college.  I went to an Ivy League school for an engineering degree.  No tutors or SAT prep.  You are not coming across well at all to us, op, a bunch of internet strangers.  I have to think it seems even worse to your sister and BIL.[/quote]

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