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Someone brought this up in a previous HN comment section as an example of trust in software ruining peoples lives. But your explanation is far more human and re
by klik99 1y ago
Someone brought this up in a previous HN comment section as an example of trust in software ruining peoples lives. But your explanation is far more human and recontextualizes it a bit for me - it just happened to be that this was done with software, but the real motivation was contempt for the lower classes and could have easily have happened 100 years ago with an internal investigation task force.
Growing up half in England and US I feel British culture is more attuned to the class aspects to this kind of event. Traditionally America likes to pretend this kind of class contempt doesn't exist (think of, people on welfare angry at welfare queens, unaware they will be affected by legislation they support).
- sm00thbr41n 1y ago[flagged]
- Forgeties79 1y ago>libs think Please don’t bring that nonsense here
- Forgeties79 1y agoFascinating watching the vote count on this slide up and down even when the other comment isn’t viewable
- sm00thbr41n 1y ago[dead]
- AceJohnny2 1y ago> Traditionally America likes to pretend this kind of class contempt doesn't exist It just manifests as racism.
- bigstrat2003 1y agoMost claims of racism in America are in fact classism. Very, very few people have actual dislike of others based on race. But a whole lot of people dislike people due to culture or class signals.
- IOT_Apprentice 1y agoDo you think Stephen Miller is a classist rather than a bigot? Why not both? I mean he is only worth somewhere between 1-10 million. Shrug. I think Vivek Ramaswamy found out how that worked out for himself in politics and at DOGE as a billionaire. I suspect your view of very, very few is suspect. The founding ideas of MAGA certainly cling to it. The 60-70 million voters for it have zero issues with it.
- Sammi 1y agoHe said "most" , not "all".
- lucyjojo 1y agoas a black man that has been around. i seriously doubt that.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoSince you brought it up, this political-leaning topic is fair game. > Most claims of racism in America are in fact classism. This is bald-faced racism denialism and makes a sweeping generalization. For example, the Trump administration is going after immigrants not for economic or class reasons but as a dogwhistle for their Floridian golf club members who don't like minorities of any sort and to appease a large section of the base of covert and overt racists generally. There is no logic in exiling and disappearing the low cost labor needed to product food, build homes, and do the terrible jobs that make civilization possible.. because it is mission of dumb people sabotaging themselves and others. The selective protection plus oppression and criminalization of undocumented people is grounded in the need to control a desperate, underpaid population to keep prices of agriculture, home construction, and restaurant prices lower than paying ordinary, livable wages to them. > Very, very few people have actual dislike of others based on race. You can't know this. And, it's leans towards false because of how propinquity works.
- Henchman21 1y agoThere’s class contempt too, no one wants to be one of the poors.
- jeremyjh 1y agoThere isn't as much contempt for the rich as there should be. The poor despise themselves for being poor, instead of the rich for making them that way.
- Henchman21 1y agoFunny what happens to the poor when the rich control what they think, eh?
- labster 1y agoWealth is not the same as class, either. Even in America. A teacher with an annual salary of $60k is higher class than a plumber making $100k annually. Unless the teacher is black, of course, then racial elements of class come into play.
- keyserj 1y agoI agree that wealth is not the same as class, but just as a counter anecdote, my dad is a (small business) plumber and I never felt like we were treated less than any other middle class family. If anything, it seemed like people were often really grateful and giving random gifts like food from gardens or tickets to local events.
- Jensson 1y ago> If anything, it seemed like people were often really grateful and giving random gifts like food from gardens or tickets to local events. If they didn't do that to other middle class families then they saw you as less than them. Seeing people as less comes both with charity and contempt, not just one of those.
- labster 1y ago
- b00ty4breakfast 1y agothere's still regular ol classism, too, racism is just part of the calculus. Poor white folks don't have it good, they just have it less bad than poor not-white folks
- Ratelman 1y agoIn America maybe, in south africa it's quite the opposite considering the government provides a lot more support for poor non-white folks than for white folks (specifically based om race)
- const_cast 1y agoYes, a bastion of pro-black racism, post-apartheid South Africa. All those white folks fleeing the country looking like the fucking Monopoly Man with their bags of money were doing it because of... anti-white racism.
- johnnyanmac 1y agoSome bits here and there. That faded as the US became a super power, and came back a bit as the 80's started stripping down the middle class thst was growing. Of course, but the 2010's it was decided by the powers that he to re-introduce identity politics as the new form of class warfare. Which was 80% sexism/racism and 20% classisn.
- munificent 1y agoPorque no los dos?
- SpaceManNabs 1y ago> Growing up half in England and US I feel British culture is more attuned to the class aspects to this kind of event. Traditionally America likes to pretend this kind of class contempt doesn't exist (think of, people on welfare angry at welfare queens, unaware they will be affected by legislation they support). As an immigrant to the US from latin america that has spent significant time in britain, this statement is the complete opposite of my experience to the point of ridiculousness. Britain is the most openly classist western country I have ever been in.
- jorts 1y agoSome high class Brits have been some of the most elitist and entitled people I’ve ever met.
- gota 1y agoI think you misunderstood the parent post. It states people in the UK are more aware/recognizant of "class" - not that they are less classist (i.e. prejudiced) The example of lower class people not recognizing so in the US is meant to be an example of lack of class awareness/recognition; not of less (or more) classism (prejudice based on class)