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America is much more racist than you think, and if you don't think so, you should probably talk to more POC.

LudwigNagasena 5y ago
Yeah, that certainly sounds like an issue of race and not of class. I guess in racially homogenous societies wealthy people don’t get any preferential treatment by police in any way whatsoever.
- exogeny 5y ago
  They're inexorably linked in this country. That shouldn't even need to be pointed out.
  - JumpCrisscross 5y ago
    > shouldn't even need to be pointed out Perhaps our greatest failure is the generation that takes any contest to this claim as heresy.
    - ss108 5y ago
      I agree that a lot (though not all) of the issues people want to pin on race are really just about class, but would you deny that there is at least a correlation between race and class? Or that law enforcement has a bad racism problem? To be clear, I don't think most cops are racist or bad (in our current culturo-political moment, I probably err on the more pro-cop side), but it's certainly a problem that hasn't been given any real thought or attention by most police departments.
  - LudwigNagasena 5y ago
    But is it reasonable to derail every discussion about wealth into a discussion about race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, height, diet and god knows what else merely because those things are linked in some way?
  - 0xedd 5y ago
Mordisquitos 5y ago
I'm betting that Tarek Abou-Khatwa, who enjoyed the privilege of not having his door knocked down by the FBI to search his home, is a "POC". I think that America is much more classist than one may think if one is distracted by the disproportionate cultural focus on racism.
- sumedh 5y ago
  > if one is distracted by the disproportionate cultural focus on racism. Black senators and Congressmen complain that they are not treated equally as their white counterparts in the Capitol building by the Capitol police. These black politicians are literally upper class and yet they face these issues.

Yeah, that certainly sounds like an issue of race and not of class. I guess in racially homogenous societies wealthy people don’t get any preferential treatment by police in any way whatsoever.

exogeny 5y ago
They're inexorably linked in this country. That shouldn't even need to be pointed out.
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago
  > shouldn't even need to be pointed out Perhaps our greatest failure is the generation that takes any contest to this claim as heresy.
  - ss108 5y ago
    I agree that a lot (though not all) of the issues people want to pin on race are really just about class, but would you deny that there is at least a correlation between race and class? Or that law enforcement has a bad racism problem? To be clear, I don't think most cops are racist or bad (in our current culturo-political moment, I probably err on the more pro-cop side), but it's certainly a problem that hasn't been given any real thought or attention by most police departments.
- LudwigNagasena 5y ago
  But is it reasonable to derail every discussion about wealth into a discussion about race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, height, diet and god knows what else merely because those things are linked in some way?
- 0xedd 5y ago

Mordisquitos 5y ago

I'm betting that Tarek Abou-Khatwa, who enjoyed the privilege of not having his door knocked down by the FBI to search his home, is a "POC". I think that America is much more classist than one may think if one is distracted by the disproportionate cultural focus on racism.

sumedh 5y ago
> if one is distracted by the disproportionate cultural focus on racism. Black senators and Congressmen complain that they are not treated equally as their white counterparts in the Capitol building by the Capitol police. These black politicians are literally upper class and yet they face these issues.