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Especially funny since Kamala mentioned working at McDonalds.
Well, clearly her low-class parent who fetishised manual labour should have emulated the Asians!
Er, wait...
For what it's worth, people say she was lying about working at McDonald's. She may have performatively pretended to growing up middle class and working a summer job in college, etc.
Yes, there seems to be some confusion between was it in California or Canada where she allegedly worked. She may well have done so!
The middle-class thing intrigues me, because as "daughter of academics" she is indeed middle-class. But in American terms, that seems to be used to include "lower-middle class/upper working class" and when she was going on the campaign trail about being 'raised middle class' she was trying to appeal to The Ordinary American, somebody not in the same sector of society as "hob-nobbing with the wealthy and well-connected" as her career has brought her to be.
It's about status as much as economics, and while a divorced single mother may not have been swimming in money, being raised as the daughters of an academic who was that divorced single mother is not at all the same thing as being raised the daughters of the divorced single mother working as a waitress. Oakland, where she grew up (in part) is supposedly economically disadvantaged, so far as I can make out? But I imagine there's areas that are relatively better-off and relatively worse-off there as well.
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