The NRx/alt-right view of the class system is hardworking whites in the middle squeezed by elitist liberals above and seething hordes below
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It's not some big secret. Listen to any RW pundit - their big theory of electoral politics is smug white billionaires manipulating dumb PoC
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The "white working class" persecution complex and latent racism are joined at the hip. The one feeds the other
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It is the reason that white millionaires still see themselves as "working class" underdogs if they have the right markers of authenticity
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Just like Trump's enormously hypocritical portrayal of white liberals as effete, effeminate, spoiled, less-than-American
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Someone with 1000x your net worth gets to mock YOU for being the "elitist" if you aren't "American" enough
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It's an interesting pattern if you look at white supremacists. They put their PoC enemies below themselves but their white enemies above
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White supremacists call PoC dumb, ignorant, animal like. They call white liberals snobbish, arrogant, out of touch
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This has almost no correlation to the people in question's actual wealth or social status
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If you have a white avi and you argue with a Trump supporter you're automatically a sheltered trust fund kid who went to Yale
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It's a weird and telling mirror image of the reflexive assumption PoC are impoverished criminals
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The white supremacist's earnest belief is their failures aren't bc of anything PoC did on their own, but bc other whites betrayed them
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That's something ppl often miss - that the hatred for other white ppl is just as intense if differently flavored
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