Let’s be real. Most openly racist people are poor. Like poor poor. Trailer park, dusty couch, two-unwashed-dishes-in-the-sink poor. They don’t travel, they don’t read, they don’t know anything about other cultures except what they saw in a rerun of Cops, they are very overweight. And yet, somehow, they’ve got opinions.
Rich people? They’re rarely racist in that loud, dumb, “go back to your country” way. Nah, rich folks just don’t care. They’re too busy judging you by your income, your job, your zip code, your car. You think they’re hiring you because you’re white? Nah, they’re hiring the dude whose dad golfs with the CEO. And if you’re not in the right tax bracket, you don’t even exist to them.
The main reason is because wealthy people can be very classy; they can afford the best education, they read a lot and travel to other countries a lot, and on top of it all, do you really think rich people care about race? The only colour they care about is green. If a white billionaire’s daughter dated a poor white guy from a trailer park, they would lose their fucking mind. If a white billionaire’s daughter dated a classy Black dude from a very wealthy and classy Black family, he’d accept that more. That’s because racism is simply for poor people; most racist people are poor.
And let’s not pretend this is just a white people thing. A lot of wealthy people of color are just as classist. Sometimes worse. I’ve seen Indian millionaires in the U.S. and in India treat working-class people like absolute trash. Same with rich Latinos, rich Black folks, rich Asians. They’ll look down on people from their own communities like they’re somehow better Look at really bad and oppressive countries: the powerful and the rich are doing everything in their power to make their own people’s lives worse.
It’s not about race—it’s about money. Racism is just what poor people cling to when they’ve got nothing else to feel superior about. “At least I’m not them”—like bro, you sleep on a futon and you’re 38.
Wealthy people discriminate based on class. That’s the real power move. Racism? That’s poor people behavior.
Edit: Most rich people tend to also care about themselves and their money and power. Money, class, power, and status – the upper-class society is their culture. They don’t care about skin colour or culture; they care if you are rich. Even Donald Trump has wealthy Black friends, and Donald’s son-in-law comes from a wealthy Arabic family, and Trump’s vice president’s wife is Indian.
Trump cares more about money than he does race. I think, and I think that goes for a lot of wealthy people now. To be clear, am I saying all poor people are racist? No, I’m not. Am I saying all rich people are not racist? No, I am saying that you will find racist people tend to be poor rather than wealthy.
Also look at it this way: wealthy white people in America don’t give a fuck about poor white people. The people in power who are actively making the lower-class white people’s lives worse are the wealthy and powerful white people. Brian Thompson was the CEO of United Healthcare; he was responsible for the deaths of countless people. Brian was a white man, and a lot of the people who died because UnitedHealthcare was denying were poor white people. The rich Black, Hispanic, Asian and the rest of the wealthy people of colour were fine because they pay for it.
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You think they’re hiring you because you’re white? Nah, they’re hiring the dude whose dad golfs with the CEO. And if you’re not in the right tax bracket, you don’t even exist to them.
Except to the degree whiteness is part of being “default”, which is a desirable trait in a hire, like personal familiarity. If the rich person or people ever becomes too aware of this, a rich, educated, culturally assimilated but brown token hire is the most likely outcome.
Of course, there’s more flexibility if they’re hiring for a less in-demand job.
And let’s not pretend this is just a white people thing. A lot of wealthy people of color are just as classist. Sometimes worse. I’ve seen Indian millionaires in the U.S. and in India treat working-class people like absolute trash. Same with rich Latinos, rich Black folks, rich Asians. They’ll look down on people from their own communities like they’re somehow better Look at really bad and oppressive countries: the powerful and the rich are doing everything in their power to make their own people’s lives worse.
It’s true, class has been a default characteristic of everything beyond a basic hunter-gatherer society.
To do a bit of a nerdy digression, though, it is totally different in other place (or times, 1930’s rich guys were definitely openly racist). In Anglophone North America, there has been a conscious effort to separate class from things like race, religion, gender and sexual preference. Other places that’s not necessarily so, there might be more than one equally dominant group, and they might track something like caste that doesn’t even exist in the West. But yeah, they definitely still do classism.
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They’re not mutually exclusive.
Rich people can still be very racist, they just don’t need to express it directly because they can hide it behind classism most of the time.
In a way classism is a way of thinking extrapolated from racism similarly to the aristocracy. By pretending they are a completely different superior race within their ethnic group who stands above all other ethnic groups.
Depends on the person what is more important, the ethnicity or wealth and for many its as you say. But plenty of examples where it’s not.
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Bruh. The community is literally called rant, why are you complaining?
It’s not a complaint, just being honest.