Public-spirited questioners get socially demoted to eccentric oddballs

Evidence

Barney was the first to raise his hand. One officer joked, ”You can always count on Barney to say something!” treating him, as usual, as an eccentric old fellow who could always chip in something odd. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 299

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Joking sequences deliberately extinguish any serious topic raised in working-class groups — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 1932; Treating audiences as intelligent is branded elitist while material elites consolidate — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 599; Audiences reduce subaltern organic intellectuals to token representatives — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 2308 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Treating audiences as intelligent is branded elitist while material elites consolidate #expands (0.82) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 599
• Joking sequences deliberately extinguish any serious topic raised in working-class groups #corroborates (0.78) — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 1932
• Audiences reduce subaltern organic intellectuals to token representatives #expands (0.75) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 2308
• Working-class representation traps the speaker in an assigned social place #expands (0.72) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1101