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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman
How many conservatives will admit they want the streets rid of every person of color, and don't care if that throat-boot comes via death or segregation to the place where Sac's chastity ring won't do the trick?
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It's not people of color they have issues with, it's people of poverty. In this country it's nearly impossible to separate the issues of race and poverty, but if you look back, Western Civilization has a long and storied history of the rich not wanting anything to do with the people or culture of the lower classes. (Which is where many of the anti-class discrimination clauses in our country's establishing documents come from) In the end, it's more about cultural differences (as defined by social class) than it is by color of skin. But since certain oft-oppressed races have become identified with certain social classes, it's very hard to separate the two types of prejudice. Especially since it's hard to tell at first glance what social class someone is in. So race becomes a scapegoat for what is, in its origin, a cultural bias.
Which doesn't make either of them "right", I just wanted to point out the distinction.