Should we allow one, both, or none?

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One is based on something you can’t control.

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so if your born in a rich family. is that in your control?

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No, but at the same time, wealth doesn’t need to be made out by someone as being a matter of class, just a manifestation of what you’ve been able to give/receive in society.

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So would it be fair to say if someone was a higher status than you, there should be no ill will against them? only the select few who exploit those below them?

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I know a guy earning six figures that considers himself working class because “I work”, we all know he’s comfortably middle upper.

I don’t judge him based upon his wealth but that doesn’t mean class isn’t a thing.

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How high are you right meow?

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Not very, it is mostly downvoted so won’t appear very high in most people’s feeds

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i dont get high anymore.

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The difference?

Its right there in the names

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That makes no sense. if its wrong to be racist then its wrong to be classist.

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Race is something you can’t do anything about. The rich can give up their unearned wealth

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OK, boomer.

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ok doomer

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None.

Racism, as we all (should) know is skin shallow. That is enough. Not being of the “right” color establishes that an individual has no rights, no freedoms, and in extremes cases, not even humanity.

Classism is just a reviewed version of the cast system. Where you are born on the social pyramid dictates your fate. Born poor, die poor.

None are tolerable. All human beings are born equal.

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well at least there’s one sane person on this website.

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It wildly depends on who you ask, so don’t waste your praise on me.

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I will absolutely judge people based on their class. You don’t come to obtain and maintain massive wealth without being an absolute shit person

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What you are doing, by taking that position, is just subscribing to the current social model. That’s not even a criticism; it’s joining the band wagon.

Let’s say you have a big success tomorrow and you manage to amass a great fortune. Are you going to give it away? Are you going to do something with your newly found wealth to truly change something for better?

The top three wealth holders in the planet are there because people allowed it. Facebook was just so groudbreaking, so innovative, so useful to connect to people. Amazon is just so convenient, so easy to use. And electric cars never existed before.

They were enabled and still are by the same people that cry today against them. If the notion of true equality really existed, the moment those individuals started becoming too big, people would remove trust and start demanding them to do good, tangible good, for others.

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Let’s say you have a big success tomorrow and you manage to amass a great fortune. Are you going to give it away? Are you going to do something with your newly found wealth to truly change something for better?

Yes??? Of course I would?

The top three wealth holders in the planet are there because people allowed it. Facebook was just so groudbreaking, so innovative, so useful to connect to people. Amazon is just so convenient, so easy to use. And electric cars never existed before.

Ohhhh, you’re a capitalist

They were enabled and still are by the same people that cry today against them. If the notion of true equality really existed, the moment those individuals started becoming too big, people would remove trust and start demanding them to do good, tangible good, for others.

That’s literally what myself and many others are doing? Except in my opinion they are evil until they intentionally drop their net worth to the single digit millions and transfer their companies to the workers who actually made them what they are today

What you are doing, by taking that position, is just subscribing to the current social model. That’s not even a criticism; it’s joining the band wagon.

Lmao, I’m an anarchist, not a liberal on a band wagon

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Are people not racist based on accent as well though?

For example Irish people?

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I’m not directly conected with english speaking countries so that example always evades me but you’re right.

The scottish also had it bad with the english as well. And some time back I read a news report on how a man had been insulted in a train for not speaking english, in London. He was speaking welsh…

Racism picks on any small thing to rise divergence, usually something the target of it can’t change. But anything works.

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I wasn’t saying you were wrong, I was just wondering if I was. True about the Scot’s, and the Welsh too….and the Cornish. Basically any form of Celt.

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Racism is ignorance and can be mended with understanding. Classism is an ongoing war, and can be mended with (upward) mobility, strikes or even riots/civil disobedience.

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who are you committing war on?

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The exploitation-class is in a class war against the rest of the world. You didn’t notice?

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who is exploiting you day to day?

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Hummm… Maybe I could find some videos showing some class warfare. Let me see… Found some tangential ones.

The Reason You’re Poor (It’s more than just taxes)

Welfare: For them, but not for you!(How YOU Subsidize Everything)

America’s Unemployment Problem

Landlord arguments suck (Debunking Arguments Landlords Use to Justify Their Existence)

This is what could find in a short period of time. Hope it helps? You should defensively read up on class struggle.

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