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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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