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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Trump, for all his ostentatious wealth, is "one of us" BECAUSE of his racism. Being "un-PC" makes him one of the betrayed, not the betrayers
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Alt-right believe if a white person expresses anti-racist sentiment it's a cynical ploy to harm other white people
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And they believe a PoC of power or influence is there bc white ppl more powerful and privileged than themselves put them there
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Elites do suck and anti-elite rhetoric is important. But keep in mind that this is the context of anti-elitism within white populism
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(Btw, if you've heard "how can immigrants be inferior yet be so dangerous", this is the answer - they think they're tools of the elite)
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The fear of aristocrats using the barbaric hordes against honest men runs SO deep here. It's literally in the Declaration of Independence
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Go look it up, they're pissed at King George for aiding and abetting "savages" in order to tyrannize good white Americans
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