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Kade U's avatar

A big part of why this is happening isn't just because the donor class is scared of class war (though I'm sure that's partially true), but the fact is that many educated, middle-class urban/suburban whites hate poor white people, especially Southerners. They are comfortable with race-based anti-poverty not because they're really opposed to poverty, but because they do not see minorities as the Enemy in the way that they see poor whites as the Enemy. To them, people like my family are detestable, without class or culture, etc. I remember forcing myself to lose my "country" accent when I went to college in the Big City because I kept getting weird looks or people being surprised I wasn't homophobic etc. This has only gotten worse in the post-Trump era.

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dysphemistic treadmill's avatar

But first, I'd just like to congratulate myself on having sat out yesterday's comments section.

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