Comment on New York real estate titan likens the phrase ‘tax the rich’ to racial slurs

• nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But it’s a mutable attribute

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can see if we make this argument, they will then say the same thing about being poor. And then take it further to say the poor should not be a protected class and therefore should not receive extra benefits. (I know this is not what protected class typically refers to, but I can see them making these arguments.)

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    • 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No need to hypothesize, they’ve been doing this since the New Deal

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