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All I can say about this thread is, Conrad Hilton is rolling in his grave!
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All I can say about this thread is, Conrad Hilton is rolling in his grave!
Hollywood Hillbillies.That's bang on James. Most of today's famous-for-being-famous seem to be the lowest of the low, crassest individuals you could find. It seems with many that you have to get your bits out with the obligatory sextape and wave your undercarriage around at every opportunity when getting out of cars or leaking "selfies" of yourself on the web.
Honestly, it's enough to make you weep!
Hollywood Hillbillies.
Although I have to admit, I watch this show once a week.
A bit staged I'm sure.
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Educate the Foreigner, please: what is this?
Just another chance for smug middle-class people to look down their nose at the Lower Orders. Come the revolution, we'll put a stop to all that.
Just another chance for smug middle-class people to look down their nose at the Lower Orders. Come the revolution, we'll put a stop to all that.
Just another chance for smug middle-class people to look down their nose at the Lower Orders. Come the revolution, we'll put a stop to all that.
And exploit the people it portrays financially and otherwise.
Believe me, no matter how much money these families make off these shows, it is nothing compared to what they would make in a traditional TV format. The networks save so much money on these shows.
These families wouldn't make any money in a traditional TV format. They wouldn't have a show.
Just another chance for smug middle-class people to look down their nose at the Lower Orders. Come the revolution, we'll put a stop to all that.
So it's ok to exploit them? So the network can make more profit?
I hear the same thing when people hire people with disabilities, illegal immigrants, people in countries with poor labor laws, etc. "Oh, if not for us, these people wouldn't even have jobs. Why should they expect to be treated fairly? They're lucky to even have work. We shouldn't have to pay them what we pay 'normal' people. Why should they get the same pay when (they're 'illegals', they're 'special needs', they are "foreigners")?"
"So fire them and hire someone else you consider 'normal'."
"But then we'd have to pay them more. (And that would cut into our profits.)"
"OK."
It is the same argument people use for laborers in China. "But if not for us, these people wouldn't even have jobs! Look at how much better off they are! (And how much richer I am!)"
It's a sad commentary on our socioeconomic system that these people feel the only way they can make any money is to play the fool on television for the very people who oppress them. Another similarly-exploited segment of our population calls that "shucking and jiving," which is exactly what it is.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. The middle class is the worst enemy the working class in this country has ever had -- they'll stab us in the back and sell us down the river at every possible opportunity.
Ah!OMG, I wish you liberals would make up your minds just who it is you hate - first it's the rich, then it's capitalism, now it's the middle class? Give me a break with this Marxist class warfare nonsense, already.
Heh. Forty years of watching the world I grew up in dismantled by people who claim to have my best interests at heart really does outweigh some guy on a message board calling me a Marxist, so no offense taken.
As far as reality TV goes, think about it. How often do you see working-class people presented as anything but a source of a cheap laugh, a snarky guffaw, a "look what Those People will do for money" type of thing. When was the last time television presented anything even remotely sensitive to working-class life? Where are the "reality shows" depicting honest working-class people living dignified, decent lives? Or won't that give Mr. and Mrs. Bourgeoisie enough to snicker and feel all superior about?