Instruction in the Hidden Rules of Class
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Instruction in the Hidden Rules of Class         


Author: *Anarcissie*
Date: Jun 11, 2007 11:46

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/magazine/10payne-t.html

The Class-Consciousness Raiser

By PAUL TOUGH

By the time Ruby Payne sat down for lunch, she had been at it for
three hours straight, standing alone behind a lectern on a wide stage
in a cavernous convention hall, parked between two American flags...
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Re: Instruction in the Hidden Rules of Class         


Author: Sir Frederick
Date: Jun 11, 2007 12:57

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Re: Instruction in the Hidden Rules of Class         


Author: bowman
Date: Jun 11, 2007 19:50

*Anarcissie* wrote:
> It may be that the only people with abiding faith in the power of
> class divisions in America are the country's few remaining Marxists
> and Ruby Payne.

"Keep you doped with religion and sex and tv
And you think youre so clever and classless and free
But youre still fucking peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be"

'Working Class Hero' John Lennon

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Re: Instruction in the Hidden Rules of Class         


Author: kmurphy004
Date: Jun 24, 2007 15:11

On 11-Jun-2007, *Anarcissie* gmail.com> wrote:
> The Class-Consciousness Raiser
>
> By PAUL TOUGH
>
> By the time Ruby Payne sat down for lunch, she had been at it for
> three hours straight, standing alone behind a lectern on a wide stage
> in a cavernous convention hall, parked between two American flags,
> instructing an audience of 1,400 Georgians in the hidden rules of
> class.

Education and intelligence is the only thing with the potential to undermine
our nation's class obsession.

--
It's not possible to turn a ho' into a housewife but by the same measure, it
is not possible to debase what is noble.
Philosophy is a thought experiment which ends the moment you turn in your
final exam.
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