Douglas_Knight comments on Why Real Men Wear Pink - Less Wrong

51 Post author: Yvain 06 August 2009 07:39AM

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Comment author: cousin_it 06 August 2009 08:35:14AM *  6 points [-]

Are you saying that rich white kids adopted ghetto fashion before poor white kids did? Doesn't ring very true to me.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 06 August 2009 07:00:16PM 1 point [-]

It sounds to me like you're asking a historical question, while the first two answers give theoretical answers. But the theory is relevant: the rich don't care about the poor, so it doesn't matter if poor white kids adopt the fashion. The claim is that the rich adopted it before the middle class.

I think this whole discussion need more concreteness.