I think a lot of rich folks tend to view the poor as avid NASCAR fans who keep their guns clean in their outdated 'mobile home'
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I was wondering whether or not anyone here had any thoughts on class discrimination? It is perhaps that which many of us may be most guilty of; wealthier individuals are often looked down upon by Marxists and anarchists, but it doesn't end here.
The bigger problem lies not in the "unfair" treatment of the privledged, but rather in the views of the working class as dangerous, subsurvient, or at least inferior by various persons. This can occur irregardless of sex or colour, and would often be noted before and prejudice based on sexual preference could arise.
Why is it exactly that the rich discriminate against the poor? Is it a result of education? Specific language traits? Common interests?
What assumptions are made about poorer people from wealthier groups where you live? From what I can tell there is a more subtle prejudice existing where I live, but I don't know what is said when I am out of earshot....
Is the prejudice against the wealthier members of the poulation by the poorer merely "jealousy"? Or a more promising rejection of their values?
Also, with regards to how we view a "criminal" it is interesting that in this case it is nearly always assuemd to be male and working class. Of course there are crimes existing outside of these groups, but what of the view of working class men as criminals regardless of colour?
I just noticed I didn't see a topic on this, I will post my views later.
I think a lot of rich folks tend to view the poor as avid NASCAR fans who keep their guns clean in their outdated 'mobile home'
I would say that is only people's view of poor white people. While black and hispanic poor people are regarded as drug dealing, drug using criminals who will shoot any white person for looking at them wrong and keep their guns clean in the 'projects'.
I also noticed that the richer people in my school view the poorer kids as inferior and talk about them when they are not around. A few of the kids believe that the poorer kid's parents are either drug addicts, alcoholics, or criminals and don't seem to know why there are people without as much money as them.
"A society which makes eating a privilege, not a right, has no right to exist" ~ Jerry Rubin
"Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburgers" Abbie Hoffman
Well I hope to God you inform them.
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Yeah man, don't worry i always do. It pisses me off when the rich kids talk about the poorer kids behind their backs, especially when they pretend to be their friends when the kids are around.
"A society which makes eating a privilege, not a right, has no right to exist" ~ Jerry Rubin
"Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburgers" Abbie Hoffman
I think a lot of class discrimination is tied into race discrimination. As just presented, prejudice is based on what race the working class individual is. Is it a NASCAR joke being made, or is it a slur about the "pregnant mexican drug dealer" It comes back to race being connected to discrimination.
in agreement with the post directly above- class in modern society (all over the world but especially in the americas) is intertwined with race. it is ny impossible to characterize one as independent from the other.
but as for 'prejudice' by the poor or the workers against the rich, thats called class rage, an element of class counsciousness. discrimination can occur from any group to another, but i dont think lets cry over the class rage of working class folks against the privileged. and as for petty bourgeois prejudice or discrimination against workers, since we are fighting against the class system that creates the basis for this of course it is of concern, though those divisions exist, will exist, and cannot be destroyed. it isnt about class collaboration, its about class consciousness, it aint about class snuggle, its about class struggle.
This is stupid. The Ruling class arn't forced to be there, they are there by choice, and as such, are open to as much reasonable criticism and distaste as we wish to give them.
Of coruse, some people are born into it, but there are class traitors. You don't have to stay where you are.
"How you cling to your purity, young man! How afraid you are to soil your hands! All right, stay pure! What good will it do? Why did you join us? Purity is an idea for a yogi or a monk. You intellectuals and Bourgeois anarchists use it as a pretext for doing nothing. To do nothing, to remain motionless, arms at your sides, wearing kids gloves. Well, I have dirty hands. Right up to the elbows. I've plunged them in the filth and blood. But what do you hope? Do you think you'll govern innocently?"-Jean-Paul Sartre
well, class traitors doesnt mean that you leave your class. sometimes it means you work in interests against your class, like a worker-turned-fink. friedrich engels was a capitalist. manuel de cespedes armed his slaves and then freed them, hoping for a nation-wide revolution.
