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Do you believe that being black or white has a larger impact than being poor or rich? If so, why? If not, why do people focus so much on race instead of wealt

• mjevans 6y ago
  Race was, probably still IS, one of many cast-ist and class-ist factors used to disenfranchise groups outside of the rich elite, and probably to some extent within them. It would be far healthier to recognize discrimination is anyone not exactly like the person discriminating; which includes ALL the factors. Not just race. (Though that was historically the easiest to notice filter in many terrible and egregious ways that were more obviously systemic.)
• ingleswood 6y ago
  Do you believe that being black or white has no impact? If not, then racism and white privilege are real things that exist. The presence of other forms of discrimination and oppression does not change this.
• epgui 6y ago
  I wouldn't dare put a number on it: I frankly don't know what the ratio would be, or if there even was just one ratio. I stand by what I said, and my main point was that this is a highly textured aspect of human experience. It's hard to reduce that to a > or a <. And also I think in the United States, the impact of wealth is quite high compared to other places. I think one's perspective on this would likely depend on where they grew up.