For me, it’s occasionally coming up when I listen to comedians. A year back I also heard a story about a white person who grew up poor, became financially stable with a good job, and then punched down and started calling other white people “white trash.”

To me it’s obvious this is poor-shaming. But I have a feeling it’s far more complex than that. I’m not even white and I feel degraded whenever I come across those words. I barely know what it means, but it breaks my heart anyways to hear.

  • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    rich people also do but they don’t get called on it, don’t get caught doing it, have a way of framing it as something classy

    So much this; when the rich do it, it’s laughed off or excused.

    There was a major member of the British royal family who was revealed to be racist, and the guy who revealed it got death threats

    • ClimateStalin [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Tbf, I do have different reactions to rich and poor people being super racist.

      Rich people? Yeah no shit, that’s how you got here. It’s not acceptable but it’s understandable. My enemies ontologically evil.

      Poor people? You’re a class traitor. You should know better. You’re not even benefiting from this arrangement but you hate minorities so much you’re willing to do volunteer work about it.