{"id":63065,"date":"2017-05-09T11:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63065"},"modified":"2017-05-09T11:02:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T16:02:52","slug":"upper-middle-class-white-peoples-burden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63065","title":{"rendered":"Upper Middle Class White Peoples’ Burden"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we noted earlier this morning<\/a>, the mayor of Seattle is expanding his “soda tax” to cover diet pop1<\/sup> because apparently minorities drink more sugar-sweetened pop than honkey does.<\/p>\n

And the tax – which was ostensibly about taxing people into health – became a matter of crushing white privilege.<\/p>\n

As commenter Mammathus Primigenius noted in the comment section, the idea that upper middle class honkeys drink diet pop is sooooo 1986.<\/p>\n

If the Mayor of Seattle (and let’s be honest, Minneapolis will want to keep up with the social justice joneses; it’s the city’s one productive industry) wants to stick it to honkey, I think we need to create a list of things that are genuinely associated with his and Betsy Hodges’ main voting bloc<\/del>\u00a0 upper-middle-class urban “white privilege”.<\/p>\n

I’ll start things out. \u00a0You feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments. \u00a0I’ll send them to the Mayor when we’re done:<\/p>\n