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  • Omgpwnies@lemmy.worldBanned from communitytoMemes@lemmy.ml•Not keeping track of lies - The resultEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    You deferred to authority with your reference to a blog that defines classes of people as “westerners” and “proletariat bourgeoisie”. Those definitions are then used throughout the article as though they are commonly known entities, and even further entities that should be considered a lesser class. Regardless of the article you linked, the quotes that you selected use the terminology I am questioning.

    So I am asking to define what those classes are, and which people are bound to that definition? I own my house, but not my means of production; does that make me a “proletariat bourgeoisie” or just a modern peasant? What if someone owns a small business but rents an apartment?

  • Omgpwnies@lemmy.worldBanned from communitytoMemes@lemmy.ml•Not keeping track of lies - The resultEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    So what’s a “westerner” who thinks both sides are different flavours of bullshit? Also, what’s a “westerner”? Also also, “bourgeois proletariat”? How does a non capital owning worker who owns capital exist? Is that just propaganda against wage workers who happened to be born in a specific location?

    “But you don’t understand, the news man said I have permission to use this to make fun of North Korea. Why are you spoilsports trying to take away my fun?”

    Critical thinking doesn’t enter into it at all.

    All cool though when you use the same tactic to “other” people who don’t have the same “enlightened upbringing” as you though right?

    It’s not like you couldn’t have made a comment on the publicly known biases of the sources in question - NYP is a far-right (from a US American perspective) editorial-mill, and the BBC is at best center-left, while still toeing the McCarthy line against second-world states. Neither is a credible source on haircuts in North Korea.