There’s a moment in “Selective Outrage,” Chris Rock’s new Netflix special, in which the comedian goes into a sort of diatribe whose thesis is that nowadays everyone seems to want to be a victim, which, he says, ends up downplaying it. that we give to the real victims. For example: remember the case of Meghan Markle (wife of Harry, the English prince), who will have shown, in an interview, that she was shocked to discover that the British crown was (in her opinion) racist.
“Really?” Rock wonders, “were you surprised that the British crown is racist? The guys basically invented slavery and imperialism and were you surprised?” Rock continues – and before you say it wasn’t exactly like that, it’s possible: I’m quoting from memory. The point remains: nobody plays the class struggle like the British – in most countries there are rich, poor and middle class, but the British are so meticulous about their class struggle that they have created between the poor and the middle class, the working class. And if you think that he working class is the same as poor, no, it is not; and if you think it’s the same as middle class, no, no (the middle class can be licensed working class no and he comes from tough neighborhoods).
It is not surprising, then, that from time to time there are more histrionic outbreaks in the UK of what has been called class warfare. In music, no one was as clear as the Sex Pistols: as much as we want to see the rise of the Pistols as a brilliant marketing gimmick, it’s no coincidence that English punk emerged at a time when the class divide was sharpening. .
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Source: Observadora
