I always feel my heart sink when someone maligns “welfare queens.” There is only one person among my friends who was ever on public assistance; and it was me. During months of chemo and surgeries I couldn’t work, and I was sucking off the government teat.
Generally, I use it to describe something way off the mark. I feel like this article is pretty classist and out of touch. I get being hyper aware of dog whistles these days, but I interpreted the artist differently. I think he was dressing a pro worker sentiment in swallowable form, whereas the article seems to think he was using pro worker language to dress up anti semitism. Frankly, I don’t think people feel the need to hide their bigotry that much anymore. If this song came out in 2004, I probably would be more critical. But today, I think pro worker sentiment needs to be hidden more than fascism.
This article did point out the fucked up depiction of obesity and poverty, but otherwise woof
I always feel my heart sink when someone maligns “welfare queens.” There is only one person among my friends who was ever on public assistance; and it was me. During months of chemo and surgeries I couldn’t work, and I was sucking off the government teat.
What’s “woof” mean?
“oh man” “holy cow” “good lord” “thats a lot to unpack”
And still no explanation why
Why what?
What’s so “woof” about it?
(they dressed a boy as a girl as they thought it’d be too cruel to have this line said about an actual girl)
Generally, I use it to describe something way off the mark. I feel like this article is pretty classist and out of touch. I get being hyper aware of dog whistles these days, but I interpreted the artist differently. I think he was dressing a pro worker sentiment in swallowable form, whereas the article seems to think he was using pro worker language to dress up anti semitism. Frankly, I don’t think people feel the need to hide their bigotry that much anymore. If this song came out in 2004, I probably would be more critical. But today, I think pro worker sentiment needs to be hidden more than fascism.