Re:Individuals prefer to harm their own group rather than he...
by syzarian on Friday December 02, 2022 @09:47AM
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Indeed. And the way the ruling class divided the working class in the U.S. was by using race as the talking point instead of class. I do maintain though that this was especially easy to do because with desegregation white working class Americans had a target to blame that wasn’t the ruling class.
Re:Individuals prefer to harm their own group rather than he...
by x86_64Ubuntu on Friday December 02, 2022 @10:02AM
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Class reductionism doesn't provide a concrete example of "harming their own group rather than help the Other" as much as the changes the U.S went under in response to the end of Jim Crow.
Re:Individuals prefer to harm their own group rather than he...
by wittycardio on Friday December 02, 2022 @10:36AM
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You're offended that someone is using white as a descriptor ?
In picking an example, you're forced to be reductive. Rather than considering the content of the character, all the comments are focused on the color of its skin.
We could be having a productive conversation about how working class run societies and government (The basic core of the US experiment in self rule) were divided and conquered by the Owner class.
But instead, we'd rather pick apart the example. This is far, far too common here on HN. It leads to a reduction of the value of HN as a whole.
PS: What's the HN shorthand to name syzarian's comment that I'm replying to?