Wealthy people will always respect other wealthy people regardless of race, and dislike all poor people regardless of race. Racism is actually directly caused by classism. The rich wanted to divide poor people, so they present an enemy. Why would the poor hate on the rich if they can hate on other poor people? Keeps the lower class distracted so we don’t mess with the status quo. It’s absolutely a ploy to keep people from seeing who the real problem is, and it’s been going for centuries.
Now, am I saying every rich person is not racist? No, that’s not what I’m saying, but rich people are mostly classist. For example, a white billionaire from the U.S.A. would rather hang out with a millionaire or billionaire African or Asian dude instead of a poor white person who lives in a trailer, and the same goes for wealthy people of colour. It doesn’t matter if the wealthy person came from a middle-class family or not.
Again, take African countries for example; the wealthy Africans are the ones oppressing their people.
WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
No war but class war.
And yes - racism is deliberately encouraged by the wealthy few in order to keep the lower class at each othert throats.
It’s a very simple dynamic really. People look around and recognize that their societies are fucked up. Then they look for somebody to blame.
And there really is somebody to blame. In virtually all cases, the society has been fucked up both by and for the ruling class.
But of course the ruling class doesn’t want anyone else to see that (and in many cases are so irrational themselves that they won’t or can’t see it), so they find somebody else to point to, to distract our attention from them.
And race is a particularly easy thing to point to, since it’s a visible distinction.