Class Obsession
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A dispatch from Boston about developments in the case of an Islamist shot dead by an FBI agent and a Boston police officer puts the New York Times' obsession with class categories on full and unattractive display. From the story:

An F.B.I. agent and a police officer approached Mr. Rahim around 7 a.m. on Tuesday outside a CVS Pharmacy in Roslindale, a middle-class Boston neighborhood....

Mr. Wright was taken into custody in Everett, a working-class Boston suburb, on Tuesday after the shooting...

In Mr. Wright's working-class neighborhood in Everett, a suburb just north of Boston, neighbors said they saw police officers and F.B.I. agents around 7 a.m. Tuesday at City Hall, around the corner from Mr. Wright's second-floor apartment on Linden Street.

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Class Obsession
smartertimes.com

A dispatch from Boston about developments in the case of an Islamist shot dead by an FBI agent and a Boston police officer puts the New York Times' obsession with class categories on full and unattractive display. From the story:

An F.B.I. agent and a police officer approached Mr. Rahim around 7 a.m. on Tuesday outside a CVS Pharmacy in Roslindale, a middle-class Boston neighborhood....

Mr. Wright was taken into custody in Everett, a working-class Boston suburb, on Tuesday after the shooting...

In Mr. Wright's working-class neighborhood in Everett, a suburb just north of Boston, neighbors said they saw police officers and F.B.I. agents around 7 a.m. Tuesday at City Hall, around the corner from Mr. Wright's second-floor apartment on Linden Street.

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