Comment on How did old-money people of color maintain their wealth through racist times?
mech@feddit.org 21 hours ago
Racist ideology is a tool used by the rich to divide the poor.
If you’re rich enough, you’re one of the “good ones”.
Comment on How did old-money people of color maintain their wealth through racist times?
mech@feddit.org 21 hours ago
Racist ideology is a tool used by the rich to divide the poor.
If you’re rich enough, you’re one of the “good ones”.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I don’t think this is true most of the time.
In the case of black people in america though, we see that most of the hate towards them is via ideas of them being criminals or poor and lazy. If you’re rich, you circumvent all three of these things. (Because rich people apparently can’t be criminals heh) Whoopee!
I think rich people generally don’t start shit with their neighbours or social circle, rather if they do it’s more like passive aggresive shit that all neighbours are made to suffer equally. So that might be part of it.