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saras

(6,670 posts)
Sun Dec 11, 2011, 03:21 PM Dec 2011

As long as someone sets themselves up as "us" and the poor as "you", then the poor will be with "us"

Last edited Wed Oct 29, 2014, 12:02 PM - Edit history (1)

As long as someone sets whites up as "us" and people with darker skin as "you", then racism will be with us.

It's not quite a tautology, but yeah. As long as there's a class that sets themselves aside from another class based on things outside the control of individuals, then there will be classes. Duh.

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