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American society is so focused on race that it is blind to class

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Re: American society is so focused on race that it is blind to class

#91

LMAO at these journalists pretending they're so surprised to find this. As if they had no hand in creating this environment... and as if this wasn't the whole point to begin with. The upper class owns journalism and this state of affairs was very much the goal.

I remember when the elites did a Jedi mind trick on the Occupy Wall Street folks and made them change their focus to race and what bathroom people get to use. It was remarkable.

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Re: American society is so focused on race that it is blind to class

#93
post #15

LMAO at these journalists pretending they're so surprised to find this. As if they had no hand in creating this environment... and as if this wasn't the whole point to begin with. The upper class owns journalism and this state of affairs was very much the goal.

When you say “these journalists”, do you mean the economist?

It’s pretty much all mainstream media on both the left and right.

Re: American society is so focused on race that it is blind to class

#94

LMAO at these journalists pretending they're so surprised to find this. As if they had no hand in creating this environment... and as if this wasn't the whole point to begin with. The upper class owns journalism and this state of affairs was very much the goal.

I remember when the elites did a Jedi mind trick on the Occupy Wall Street folks and made them change their focus to race and what bathroom people get to use. It was remarkable.

Not the elites.

Horowitz: Occupy Wall Street: The Communist Movement Reborn [0].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Occupy-Wall-Street-Communist-Movement...

Re: American society is so focused on race that it is blind to class

#97
post #2

How do you determine the class of student being admitted?

I mean, it basically boils down to money. Set prices high enough and you get those who can afford it. And if you've always been elitest, then alumni admissions will all be upper class as well.

Re: American society is so focused on race that it is blind to class

#98

LMAO at these journalists pretending they're so surprised to find this. As if they had no hand in creating this environment... and as if this wasn't the whole point to begin with. The upper class owns journalism and this state of affairs was very much the goal.

Given our history, I would say race is far more interesting. And we need those clicks. The media is simply responding to the incentives. It’s all of our fault. If we didn’t click on it, they would stop publishing it.

No, there are certainly times where the media reporting is “top-down”. This latest recession has produced some strange reporting around justifying raising fed rates to cause unemployment to reduce inflation, for example.

A more historical example would be on the early days of the 2nd Gulf War and the war drums beating for Iran perhaps a year later (that never materialized into a war)

Re: American society is so focused on race that it is blind to class

#99
post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Your first link contains an anti-semitic dogwhistle. Is this intentional?

In the racial representation of billionaires? What exactly is the dog whistle?
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