(It’s not middle class to fight with and for the most marginalised and for our very survival. An understanding of the working class that excludes trans and racialised people is not an understanding of class. Dempsey has swallowed an elite right-wing culture war stereotype of the working class.)

it's just a matter of what type of "political violence" you can ignore or justify and what is visible to you

Just because someone is rich it doesn't mean they are smart. Generations upon generations of the smartest people the world has ever seen died as farmers in obscurity. We only get to know about the people with the money and power who were written about. They're powerful, not smart.