32 - JD Vance - American Dreams and Nightmares: Difference between revisions

I think that's a really way to actually, again, share a life. And a conversation with somebody. You know, I think about, you know, my real experience of this having never worked on a factory floor, you know, I guess I maybe worked at a, at a factory for like three months out of my life. was in the, in the military, right. Still sort of like the genuinely, multiracial, multiracial multi ethnic multi-class institutions in American life. And so many of the conversations that I had with, like my 19 year old, you know, friends that I was in boot camp with would absolutely offend and scandalize the average.

Yeah, absolutely. You know, you know, some people, like, make fun of each other. That's a natural thing to happen among people who are genuinely friends. I think especially like young people, they're kind of ribbing each other. They're testing the boundaries a little bit, and there's a way in which that kind of real conversation is no longer welcome in elite circles. And I, you know, I think sort of the pro spin on it is that, you know, maybe an environment that's multiracial, where jokes are flying everywhere, maybe people are sort of secretly offended, but in a hyper cleansed environment and the average elite university people aren't as offended.