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Originally Posted by GullFoss
Issue 4 - White people - especially first generation immigrants, whites with a blue collar upbringing and whites with a rural upbringing - are also victims of prejudice in white collar professions. I've seen it many times, often perpetrated by my white bosses of more privileged backgrounds. And I see it increasingly so. These white people don't talk the right way. They don't act the right way. They don't dress the right way. So many times, the privileged white guy remains privileged, but we burden the unprivileged white guy to make room for the unprivileged BIPOC. And then everyone calls the unprivileged white guy a redneck, racist, deplorable when he gets upset at the system.
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The upper middle classes have always found ways to demonstrate their superiority to the lower orders. That’s one of the incentives to climb the social ladder - sneering at those on the lower rungs. The culture wars enable educated and sophisticated whites to flaunt their own moral stature by ridiculing uneducated whites. And the best part is by doing it under the auspices of championing minorities, they get to feel good about themselves while they’ve doing it. It’s an irresistible win-win.