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Re:Study shows class bias in hiring based on few seconds of ... by lotsofpulp on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @09:56PM (#26964505)
President Lyndon Johnson said

>If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.

It does not just apply to dynamics between white and non white people, it applies to all people, even within tribes of the same skin color, and probably even other tribal species.

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Re:Study shows class bias in hiring based on few seconds of ... by DenisM on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @10:58PM (#26964996)
He didn’t make it up either - the French government did exactly that about 200 years ago in Haiti. They introduced apartheid for the purpose of sowing discord between people and undermining the independence movement.
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Re:Study shows class bias in hiring based on few seconds of ... by lotsofpulp on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @10:54AM (#26970071)
An even older example is Indians and the caste system. I would even posit it greatly assisted Britain in being able to pilfer the subcontinent from halfway around the world with a fraction of the population.
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