• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    This rich vs. poor thing would be a hell of a lot more believable if there weren’t so many poor people who were gigantic fucking bigots.

    How do you mend a divide between people who exist and people who hate their existence?

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      1 day ago

      Of course rich folk will look for allies among poor folk. Play off the people against each other. This strategy is centuries old … no wait, millennia old.

      You don’t mend a divide. That’s pointing to the divide as the problem, when the real problem is discrimination.

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        20 hours ago

        No, the real problem is hatred. Bigots hate the people they are bigoted against. That is not a rich vs. poor thing. I’ve gotten attacked by more than one poor bigot. Plenty of people from minority communities have.

        This whole idea where everyone but the rich will get together and sing kumbaya and then win the class war and create a utopia is ridiculously naive and, as far as I can think, only comes from people who have never had a bigot get into their face and hate them because of who they are.