[blackbart.223]

"After forty years of the Cultural Revolution, persons of all classes and professions have become co-natural with the vulgar, the common, and the casual."

For the most part I agree with this article. There is far too much coarse behavior.

But when you start refering to people by class, you cross the line and become pompous. Part of the American Revolution was to do away with titles of nobility.

[Goetz_von_Berlichingen]

But it did not do away with classes. Quite the contrary: in most states there was an unmistakeable distinction between those who were propertied (and franchised) and those who were un-propertied. And a society that permits the ownership of slaves certainly has at least two classes.

Just because titles in the European sense were forbidden by the Constitution does not mean that classes did not exist, or that the framers attempted to create a classless society. In a sense, this Constitutional prohibition could be construed as rank hypocrisy. Thomas Jefferson may have been Mister Jefferson, but as a slave-owner he had greater power of life and death over a greater number of people than any European count or duke.

[aconservaguy]

But when you start refering to people by class, you cross the line and become pompous. Part of the American Revolution was to do away with titles of nobility.

Not disagreeing, but what does mention of classes have to do with nobility? Couldn't it just be reference to everyday economic or social classes?

[Pistias]

Equality rearing its head, Bart. There's a good kind of equality and a bad kind. The bad kind is the one that thinks that, judging by the more learned way in which a man acts or speaks "thinks he's better than everyone else" or "thinks his sh!t don't stink" and seeks to pull him down.