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The beauty of the term middle class is that it can be whatever the writer wants it to be, including leaving it up the reader’s imagination.


indeed, I'm personally fond of using it to disparage things I don't like.

It's a most excellent insult.

You get the implied snobbery of an upper-class person looking down on their inferiors, whilst also maintaining some street cred via not insulting the painfully poor.

examples: "stupid middle class French boys" "god-awful, self-indulgent prose that only the most basic of middle-class housewives could appreciate" "a speech reeking of vapid middle-class cliches" ...




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