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Originally Posted by Tommy_Wiseau
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OWS comes off statistically similar to a randomly selected sample of US population even though they aren't at all randomly selected. Pretty much the definition of a popular movement. Compare to early tea party stats: old white conservative bigots.
A direct refutation of the "dirty unemployed hippie" fallacy still being propagated by the corporate media and parroted by idiots around the country and on this board.
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Out of about 20-30 people in Raleigh (the standard sized night time group in a normally low profile non protest town):
*** there is one man that worked for Nortel making over $100k+ a year as an engineer, worked for Bell South (I think it was Bell South.. I can't remember the details all that well) was in the National Guard, currently works as a pastor/handler for the homeless after being laid off from a variety of contractor jobs after Nortel shit the bed
*** a 55+ year old couple who both work and show up after work still dressed up in businesswear
*** a business owner that looks like a hippy
*** full-time college students
*** full-time college students that work
*** post-grad college students
*** post-grad college students with part time jobs
*** post-grad college students with full time jobs
*** a 57 year old handicapped homemaker mother of 2 or 3
*** a police force who either antagonize or made secret dropoffs of supplies