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Maybe not racism, just classism.
by dlp211 5y ago
Maybe not racism, just classism.
- yumraj 5y agoSo it has to be one of the -isms and can't simply be a person having an opinion, even if incorrect or based on incorrect assumptions. BTW, for the record, I'm not familiar with the concept of welfare queens.
- dlp211 5y agoKinda, yes. You can have a opinion that is classist/racist without being a classist/racist. This is one of the points of systemic racism/classism. You have this opinion because it's been informed via the zeitgeist of American rhetoric. The question is, given this new information, do you update your priors and your opinion?
- yumraj 5y agoI disagree, but for what it's worth, in case you were not able to tell from my username, I'm an immigrant, from India. While I have been here in the US for many years, much of my life, including college education and a few years after that, was in India. So, not sure if I'm afflicted by the American systemic racism.
- mcphage 5y ago> I'm not familiar with the concept of welfare queens. You are familiar with the concept—it's exactly what you put in your original comment.
- sershe 5y agoIs there anything wrong with classism, and is there any reason to lump these together that is not extremely specific to the USA? I grew up relatively poor, and I am generally very classist (modulo educational opportunities, i.e. for adults with no/little other disadvantages) because, well, I knew and saw a lot of poor people; almost all the same ethnicity as myself.