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Well it’s not totally incorrect (in America at least). When America was founded, there was one identity class above all in writing: white and male. Then the subtext was, of course, rich and educated. Over the years, we’ve very very slowly clinked away at this structure but never truly addressed the bedrock issue of the very intended inequality that our (and many other) cultures rely upon. When you’re told that it’s your right to have a good life for generations and centuries while other groups are only being able to do things that you never had a barrier to, it will seem as though you’re being lowered when others are being lifted. When you see resources as scarce and you see those around you with those resources that used to be reserved for people like you, you think “why are they taking from me?” When in reality, it was never the people you could see that were taking from you. It’s those who will not put themselves in a situation to be your focus. The unnamed 99% who are in control and know that awareness is the greatest threat to their power over the masses.
If education is only more and more widely available (not taking into account the rising costs of post secondary education, as people are still paying for it in larger and larger numbers) then why is it that wealth is only becoming more concentrated at the top? That cannot be the fault of people who were essentially second class citizens as recently as two generations ago.
Comment by hendrixski at 23/01/2025 at 12:06 UTC
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Yes and the kind of white mattered. Not Irish. They were the wrong kind of white. Not Italian. Not Polish. Not Jewish. Etc. Etc.
Not the poor. Anybody but the poor.
It was wealthy white Anglo-Saxon protestant families that ran the place.
Comment by anubiz96 at 20/01/2025 at 20:43 UTC
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Well said