{"id":11147,"date":"2021-11-16T09:49:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T14:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=11147"},"modified":"2025-11-16T09:54:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T14:54:02","slug":"classism-and-johnny-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=11147","title":{"rendered":"Classism and Johnny Doc"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Someone asked me privately about my claim that classism has something to do with the attitudes of some people toward <span class=\"html-span xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs\"><a class=\"x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n x18oe1m7 x1sy0etr xstzfhl x972fbf x10w94by x1qhh985 x14e42zd x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 x3ct3a4 xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xkrqix3 x1sur9pj x1fey0fg x1s688f\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/john.j.dougherty.1?__cft__[0]=AZWTBhP_1kKE8Zd8CZTqajzWNMXUevB68J2Cxn8hivUAfeVcoqzAtKUD8kfbNdIyLUWdH-ATEy1kionzgU13VvMBMYYEVH2dIIvCluX3ao8c-tVrNLEKbq0LnrGpIjFPJfUIkkqaFRvTi3Hp4NU1r-5Y&amp;__tn__=-]K-R\"><span class=\"xt0psk2\"><span class=\"xjp7ctv\">John J. Dougherty<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>. \u201cWhat makes you think that?\u201d she said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Well, a number of years ago ago I got accused by a fairly wealthy person in Northwest Philadelphia of supporting the \u201ccorrupt Dougherty-Brady\u201d wing of the Democratic Party because I opposed the neo-liberal darling of the upper middle class in a citywide primary race.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">This was at a time when Dougherty and Brady were not only factional opponents in the Democratic Party but barely on speaking terms.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">What would lead someone to talk about the Dougherty-Brady wing of the party, other than ignorance? What did they have in common at the time?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">You tell me.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone asked me privately about my claim that classism has something to do with the attitudes of some people toward John J. Dougherty. \u201cWhat makes you think that?\u201d she said. Well, a number of years ago ago I got accused by a fairly wealthy person in Northwest Philadelphia of supporting the \u201ccorrupt Dougherty-Brady\u201d wing of the Democratic Party because I opposed the neo-liberal darling of the upper middle class in a citywide primary race. This was at a time when Dougherty and Brady were not only factional opponents in the Democratic Party but barely on speaking terms. What would lead someone to talk about the Dougherty-Brady wing of the party, other than ignorance? What did they have in common at the time? You tell me. <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=11147\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1896,"featured_media":11148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[32,300],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/YKNZ4TCXFBGQ5EOSVFTNFMHHJI-3209616775.jpg?fit=400%2C267&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p35YuU-2TN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11149,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11147\/revisions\/11149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}