Comments on: The Working Classes http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2008/04/29/the-working-classes/ Education. Technology. Productivity. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ed Podestahttp://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2008/04/29/the-working-classes/comment-page-1/#comment-730 Ed Podesta Sun, 04 May 2008 21:39:12 +0000 http://www.dougbelshaw.com/?p=512#comment-730 "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself" Romans 13:9 “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself” Romans 13:9

]]> By: Peter Slackhttp://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2008/04/29/the-working-classes/comment-page-1/#comment-731 Peter Slack Thu, 01 May 2008 14:31:24 +0000 http://www.dougbelshaw.com/?p=512#comment-731 Anyone else recognise the above quotation as a nail being hit (perhaps a little too firmly) on the head? No. It comes across as lazy and mean spirited to me, displaying a lack of empathy dressed up in an elegant literary style. As it (presumably) comes from the mouth of a character one could charitably assume that Naipul is not uncritical of these views. Certainly Dickens was never so dismissive of the working class / underclass of his day. Anyone else recognise the above quotation as a nail being hit (perhaps a little too firmly) on the head?

No. It comes across as lazy and mean spirited to me, displaying a lack of empathy dressed up in an elegant literary style. As it (presumably) comes from the mouth of a character one could charitably assume that Naipul is not uncritical of these views. Certainly Dickens was never so dismissive of the working class / underclass of his day.

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