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To: CodeToad

It was not liberal at all. Have you never read about the upper class on the titanic and how they behaved? The whole Molly Brown story would not have happened otherwise.

The people below decks worked for a living and showed it. My comment had nothing to do and said nothing of the people they considered “steerage” who were literally locked below decks so the elite could get off.

I suggest you read a little of the history and culture of 1912 and what the Titanic changed after the accident!

I suggest you join reality


7 posted on 02/22/2022 11:15:42 AM PST by Skwor
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To: Skwor
Many upper class men died to make room for women and children on the boats.

In the same era— the casualty rate for British officers in WW1 was notably higher than the rate among enlisted soldiers. Something like 20% of Eaton students who served in the war died, an even higher rate than officers as a whole and almost twice the rate of the regular troops. The idea that “elites” of the period were inferior to working class does smack just a tad of Bolshevism.

The people who kept the lights on on the Titanic did so because they were men, nothing to do with upper or lower class.

14 posted on 02/22/2022 11:28:35 AM PST by TheDandyMan
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