One-Percenters Close to Surpassing Wealth of U.S. Middle Class

Re:One-Percenters Close to Surpassing Wealth of U.S. Middle ... by javajosh on Saturday November 09, 2019 @08:32AM (#21491422)

>will seek out easier targets who look/sound different (muslims, immigrants, jews, gays, people of color, etc.)

We assume the 1% is white, christian and male, but is it? And insofar as it isn't, I think it's unlikely that scapegoats will be picked in the traditional (e.g. racist) way. One non-racial scapegoat category be criminals -- the right is already successful scapegoating illegal immigrants for a remarkable variety of issues.

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Re:One-Percenters Close to Surpassing Wealth of U.S. Middle ... by alxjrvs on Saturday November 09, 2019 @08:41AM (#21491477)

I think it is fair to say that targeting "illegal immigrants" satisfies both racial and "criminal" requirements. Criminality itself is fairly racial.

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Re:One-Percenters Close to Surpassing Wealth of U.S. Middle ... by pytester on Saturday November 09, 2019 @01:29PM (#21493264)

I think it's quite hard to pick out which groups will end up being the scapegoat du jour, although there are some hints. I think the hammer is much more likely to come down on Muslims than Jews in the west, for instance.

Whichever group it is, some wealthy people will probably get caught up in it and flee the country.

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Re:One-Percenters Close to Surpassing Wealth of U.S. Middle ... by jacobush on Saturday November 09, 2019 @08:40AM (#21491469)

It wouldn't matter. As a 0.01 percenter, you have immunity from being gay or whatever, as you are bankrolling and in symbiosis with the nationalists.

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