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    <h1>Prole Vs SWPL</h1>
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<p>From the <a href="https://heartiste.org/2010/12/29/prole-vs-swpl/" target="_blank">original article</a> on December 29, 2010. Author: <a href="https://heartiste.org/" target="_blank">Chateau Heartiste</a>.</p>
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  <p>Half Sigma has a running gag on his blog comparing the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141227030811/http://www.halfsigma.com/2006/06/class.html" target="_blank">tastes of proles</a> (the proletariat, i.e. the working class and lower middle class, with perhaps some bleeding into the middle class) with those of the higher classes. I can’t tell if he’s being ironically deadpan or sincere, but it’s funny nonetheless. Categorizing the peculiarities of your lessers is so much more entertaining than watching Dancing With The Stars.</p>
  <p>For instance, did you know that Red Delicious apples are prole while Fuji apples are SWPL? I always had a vague inkling that was the case, but now I know why: Red Delicious are oversized, gaudy, juicy and excessively sweet. Fujis are a more natural size, less ostentatious, less juicy and mildly sweet with subtle earthy undertones. This pretty much encapsulates the difference in class tastes; proles have an underdeveloped aesthetic that can only appreciate the bluntness of flash and tackiness, much like how an infant is drawn to bright primary colors. SWPLs have a mature aesthetic that gravitates to understatement, irony, and “hidden meanings”. On the color wheel, SWPLs would be the tertiary colors (red-orange, blue-green). This is because they are mincing little pukes who love to nuance everything to death.</p>
  <p>I’m gonna run with this. Expanding on Half Sigma’s theme, here is my prole vs SWPL chart. I count SWPLs as generally middle to upper middle class whites (and some honorary Asians), raised through their formative years in leafy suburbs, and living in hip urban enclaves with other like-minded whites, often on their parents’ dimes. Hipsters, <a href="/becoming-a-minor-scenester-celebrity.html" target="_blank">scenesters</a> and yuppies are SWPL subgroups. Their tastes tend to converge even when their politics don’t (although as a rule SWPLs are pretty much standard operating procedure liberals. A conservative SWPL is what’s known as a “benefactor”. Or an engineer.)</p>
  <p>Conservative and liberal SWPLs co-locate. Proles cohabitate.</p>
  <p>If you have to ask what the acronym SWPL means, you are a prole. Or a foreigner.</p>
  <p>Multicolored Christmas lights – prole<br/> White or blue Christmas lights – SWPL<br/> Bulb ornaments – prole<br/> Antique doll ornaments – SWPL<br/> Actual star or an angel on top of tree – prole<br/> Homemade concoction by niece or a cubist representation of a star on top of tree – SWPL<br/> Inflatable Santa and reindeer on front lawn – prole<br/> Only decoration is Christmas tree in window and perhaps wreath on front door – SWPL<br/> Nativity scenes – prole<br/> Christmas miniature villages – SWPL<br/> Kids get electronic toys minus the batteries – prole<br/> Kids get puzzles, books, board games and art supplies with batteries included where necessary – SWPL<br/> CVS brand batteries – prole<br/> Rechargeable batteries (or better still, solar recharging) – SWPL<br/> USAToday – prole<br/> NYBTimes – SWPL<br/> Glenn Beck – prole<br/> Steve Sailer – SWPL<br/> Jim Webb – prole<br/> Nancy Pelosi – SWPL<br/> Alarm clock set to morning zoo radio program – prole<br/> Alarm clock set to soothing cadence of NPR – SWPL<br/> Cloth sofas – prole<br/> Microfiber sofas – SWPL<br/> Motorcycles – prole<br/> Scooters – SWPL<br/> Tuna fish – prole<br/> Salmon – SWPL<br/> Bartlett pears – prole<br/> Asian pears – SWPL<br/> Barbequed ribs – prole<br/> Bison meat – SWPL<br/> Shredded cheese – prole<br/> Smelly cheese – SWPL<br/> Porn with anal penetration and loud, fake moaning from the girls – prole<br/> Regular sex porn with pink-haired emo girls squeaking like mice – SWPL<br/> Sluts – prole<br/> Sluts pretending to be good girls – SWPL<br/> Public sex – prole<br/> Role playing – SWPL<br/> Diabetes – prole<br/> Stress fractures – SWPL<br/> Sugary cereal – prole<br/> Paleo diet – SWPL<br/> Domestic industrial beer – prole<br/> Microbrews – SWPL<br/> Zinfandel – high prole<br/> Pinot noir – SWPL<br/> Shot glasses from different cities and vacation spots – prole<br/> Stemless wine glasses – SWPL<br/> Blended whiskey – prole<br/> Single malt scotch – SWPL<br/> Gays seen as threat or butt of jokes – prole<br/> Gays seen as cool social ornaments or butt of jokes smoothed over with ironic plausible deniability – SWPL<br/> Meth – prole<br/> Coke – SWPL<br/> Weight room – prole<br/> Yoga – SWPL<br/> Backyard wrestling – prole<br/> Marathon running – SWPL<br/> Biceps (men), tits (women) – prole<br/> Six pack (men), calves (women) – SWPL<br/> Children – prole<br/> Apartment sized pets – SWPL<br/> Home installing – prole<br/> Home brewing – SWPL<br/> Decks – prole<br/> Patios – SWPL<br/> Lawns – prole<br/> Gardens – SWPL<br/> “No fat chicks” t-shirt – prole<br/> “This is what a feminist looks like” t-shirt – SWPL<br/> NRA – prole<br/> ACLU – SWPL<br/> Cable – prole<br/> Streaming video – SWPL<br/> QVC – prole<br/> Adult Swim – SWPL<br/> Leno, CSI, DWTS, American Idol, Sarah Palin’s Alaska – prole<br/> Stewart, Colbert, O’Brien, Tosh.o, Tim and Eric – SWPL<br/> NASCAR, UFC – prole<br/> Soccer, tennis – SWPL<br/> Sleeps with fat chicks but would prefer skinny chicks – prole<br/> Sleeps with skinny chicks but claims fat chicks would be perfectly fine – SWPL<br/> Knows what the meaning of “is” is – prole<br/> Knows what the meaning of “is” is, but pretends not to – SWPL<br/> Paid summer jobs (or unemployment) – prole<br/> Unpaid summer internships (AKA unemployment) – SWPL<br/> Disney World – prole<br/> Amsterdam – SWPL<br/> Cleveland – prole<br/> San Francis – SWPL<br/> Patriotism, anti-quotas, de facto integrationism – prole<br/> Feminism, anti-racism, de facto segregationism – SWPL<br/> Transformers – prole<br/> The Kids Are All Right – SWPL<br/> “Show us your tits!” – prole<br/> “Hey ho hey ho, Western culture’s gotta go” – SWPL<br/> Family lives close by (no buffer zone) – prole<br/> Family lives three flyover states away (buffer zone) – SWPL<br/> WWJD? – prole<br/> COEXIST – SWPL<br/> First person shooter – prole<br/> RTS or MMORPG – SWPL<br/> Ford F150 – prole<br/> Vespa – SWPL<br/> Church – prole<br/> Sunday brunch mimosas – SWPL<br/> Drinking and fighting – prole<br/> Drinking and snippily chastising – SWPL<br/> Basement parties – prole<br/> Stoop parties – SWPL<br/> Naturals – prole<br/> PUAs – SWPL<br/> Taylor Swift – prole<br/> MGMT – SWPL<br/> Tom Cruise – prole<br/> Colin Firth – SWPL<br/> Nikes – prole<br/> Vibram Fivefingers – SWPL<br/> Lynyrd Skynyrd t-shirts – prole<br/> Thinkgeek.com t-shirts – SWPL<br/> Motorola – prole<br/> iPhone – SWPL<br/> Bumping and grinding – prole<br/> Salsa lessons – SWPL<br/> Single moms – prole<br/> Single – SWPL<br/> Wolf whistling – prole<br/> Shy glances – SWPL<br/> PeopleofWalmart.com – prole<br/> Will Wilkinson – SWPL<br/> Divvies the check up by the exact amount each person in a party owes – prole<br/> Splits the check evenly by number of party members – SWPL<br/> Kiddie beauty pageants – prole<br/> Kiddie bilingualism – SWPL</p>
  <p>These are, of course, generalizations. Exceptions exist.</p>
  <p>I give SWPLs a lot of shit for their hypocrisy, sanctimony and status whoring, but I wouldn’t want to live, for example, a prole lifestyle in a redneck neighborhood where COPS isn’t just a show on TV. The lower classes are crass, boorish and often thoughtlessly impulsive. Their kids are snot-nosed brats and bullies. When they speak their rudimentary patois, you will cringe. Their abysmal taste in the finer pleasures of life is a perpetual turn-off for those who would be their natural political allies. But they already get so much shit from the MSM that I don’t feel an urge to pile on them. I prefer to hunt the hunters.</p>
  <p>Low class antics aside, working class proles are, by and large, honorable people. SWPLs are clever neutered ciphers. The average small town prole is much more genial than the typical urban SWPL, and more generous of spirit as well. When charitable giving is on the line, or when it’s a friendly voice and a warm smile you need, proles step up to the plate. SWPLs, meanwhile, are busy quipping like French aristocrats trying so SOO hard to impress their fellow SWPLs.</p>
  <p>Proles are the backbone of vital enterprises like the military, but they could learn a thing or two from the culturally advanced classes. Of course, being proles, they probably don’t give a shit about impressing the SWPL schoolmarms, or they at least act like they don’t give a shit. And quite frankly, I don’t blame them for eschewing SWPL tastes. Aside from the aesthetics, what is there to admire in such a repugnantly self-regarding group of irony-pimping, snark-spitting, transnationalist, post-American lifestyle whores?</p>
  <p>Both groups are signaling their status through their tastes, so morally neither one is better than the other. They are both sheep with a herd mentality, just following different herds. But an objective aesthetic judgement can be made that at least some (not all) of the SWPL tastes are superior. (Some taste differences are just downright arbitrary, and probably serve more as markers of delineation from perceived lower classes — AKA “wrong kind of white people” — than as honestly felt improvements in quality of life. For instance, there’s nothing about multicolored Christmas lights that makes them inherently inferior to white Christmas lights. In fact, not long ago, white lights were considered gauche.)</p>
  <p>I always advise pay no heed to what women say; instead, watch what they do. You shall know them by their actions. Well, the same could be said for the places you choose to live and the people with whom you choose to associate.</p>
  <p>Look around you. Do you feel a twinge of cognitive dissonance? Yet you admit to yourself it is a pretty good life. Don’t underestimate the satisfying feeling of being a dark force moving stealthily through the oblivious masses. They will do your bidding.</p>
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