Class, Not Race, Divides America

American Greatness ^ | 14 June 2020 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Rummyfan]

It is the truth that the white progressive dares not to utter.

Nothing is stranger in these tense days than the monotony of the inexact and non-descriptive mantra of “white privilege” and “white solidarity”—as if there is some monolithic white bloc, or as if class matters not at all.

In truth, the clingers, the deplorables, the irredeemables, and Joe Biden’s “dregs” have very little in common with those who so libel them, but superficially share supposedly omnipotent and similar skin color.

In the past, we saw such tensions among so-called whites in CNN’s reporting of the allegedly toothless rubes at Trump rallies, in the Strzok-Page text trove about Walmart’s smelly patrons, in the callous coastal disregard for the five-decade wasting away of the American industrial heartland, in the permissible elite collective disparagement of Christian evangelicals, and in the anthropological curiosity about and condescension toward such exotic, but presumably backward, Duck Dynasty and NASCAR peoples.

[HollyB]

This has always been my opinion as well.

[dfwgator]

As in, a lot of people in this country have no class.

[Bonemaker]

“Class, Not Race, Divides America...”

I don’t know...I don’t see poor Appalachian whites rioting, looting, burning etc.

[combat_boots]

Years ago, this was obvious South of our border. Now it’s here.

[Jakarta ex-pat]

Haven’t absorbed the whole article.
But the White Middle class destroyed the UK.

[Boardwalk]

I took a cruise in my black mustang convertible today and it felt good! The pickup on it forgetaboutit!

[EEGator]

"You're like a teacher in Summertime...ain't got no class!"

[EEGator]

Yeah, that’s why Africa is so wonderful.

[gundog]

Race is a stalking horse for the commies, these days. Class struggle, real, imagined, or manufactured, has always been their cause.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

‘Victor Davis Hanson’

Whatever topic this man pontificates on, I’m in. 100%.

This. Is. America. If you can’t make it here, you can’t make it anywhere!

The ONLY reason these Antifa PUKES (and Socialist Democrats, but I repeat myself!) are making ANY headway is because they have the @#$%^&*! FREEDOM, as Americans, to do so!

(Which also sickens me.)

[Altura Ct.]

And yet here we are.

[SauronOfMordor]

The real divide is between people who work, who provide goods and services, and those who don’t.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“I don’t know...I don’t see poor Appalachian whites rioting, looting, burning etc.”

To strung out on crystal meth and fentanyl to go around rioting, looting, burning etc. But I bet they give it the college try.

[mrmeyer]

Yeah. They don’t s**t where they eat.

[BlackAdderess]

Fantastic article

[IncPen]

That’s a very good read.

I am so F’ing sick of being told what I believe and then lectured about it...

[TChad]

VDH is exactly right, and very helpful, once again.

[stormhill]

The Marxist concept of "class" does not apply in America in the same way it does in Europe or India. This is not to imply there are no differences of economic status or positions of power. Rather, to point to the obvious truth that given the right combination of ambition, talent, tenacity and even luck, movement from one power level to another is possible here in ways it isn't in older cultures. In America, a prince can become a pauper and a pauper can become a prince.
For that reason, there's something fundamentally un-American to speak of "class" as if it's encoded in a person's DNA. It is simply offensive.

[TigersEye]

I would have guessed IQ scores.