TenuredVulture wrote:
Actually, quite the opposite I'm afraid. Racist rich people do a lot more damage than racist poor people. But at least they do that harm in nice, genteel ways.
now we're arguing magnitude ofindividuals' impact with respect to racial views, weighted by their economic resources? Feels like we're moving the burning crosses here....
Let's face it: 'racism' can be difficult to pin down. So can 'wealth', for that matter.
But it feels like you're trying to make the case that, if we had ourselves a consensus measure of racial animus, we'd find every bit as much of it, as measured by percent of population cohort, among, say, caucasians in the upper 20% the wealth spectrum as we would find among the lowest 1/5.
I'm open to that possibility. Do you have a source or sources of support for something like that?
