I guess that Orwell’s objection was something like “these people seem incapable to tone down their middle-class signalling”. They ostentatiously care about things that working-class people do not have capacity to care about. They utterly fail at empathy with the workers… and yet presume to speak in their name.
The worker is trying not to starve, and to have enough strength for daily 16-hour work at the factory. Vegetarianism is a luxury he can’t afford. Will healthier diet really make him live longer? His main risk factors are falling of the scaffolding, mutilation by an engine, suffocation in a mine, et cetera; how does eating a f-ing tofu protect against that?
For a working-class woman, the lack of right to vote is also not very high on her list of priorities, I suppose.
Therefore, talking about these topics too much is like saying that actual working-class people are not invited to the debate.
I guess that Orwell’s objection was something like “these people seem incapable to tone down their middle-class signalling”. They ostentatiously care about things that working-class people do not have capacity to care about. They utterly fail at empathy with the workers… and yet presume to speak in their name.
The worker is trying not to starve, and to have enough strength for daily 16-hour work at the factory. Vegetarianism is a luxury he can’t afford. Will healthier diet really make him live longer? His main risk factors are falling of the scaffolding, mutilation by an engine, suffocation in a mine, et cetera; how does eating a f-ing tofu protect against that?
For a working-class woman, the lack of right to vote is also not very high on her list of priorities, I suppose.
Therefore, talking about these topics too much is like saying that actual working-class people are not invited to the debate.