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.

[rlmorel]

Great article-thanks for posting it.

[ottbmare]

It’s true: there’s no white privilege, per se, but there is class privilege. Would you rather have a cultured black man like Clarence Thomas or Ben Carson live next door to you, or some white trash meth head? Cops aren’t favorably disposed toward the white trash or black trash types, but they certainly tread with care if they encounter a dignified and well-groomed man of either race wearing a pink Brooks Brothers polo shirt, khakis, and expensive boat shoes.

[dragnet2]

I see Andy, the hicks in the Appalachians are to strung out on crystal meth and fentanyl to go around rioting, looting, burning etc, as you stated, but it makes those in the black community riot and loot. Right?

[SandwicheGuy]

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

There it is.

[gogeo]

I was a hard sell after reading the headline...but he’s spot on.

[gogeo]

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.

It's not something that's necessarily visible. If it exists, it's a sense that the rules are different for the 'elite.'

[EQAndyBuzz]

“I see Andy, the hicks in the Appalachians are to strung out on crystal meth and fentanyl to go around rioting, looting, burning etc, as you stated, but it makes those in the black community riot and loot. Right?”

As I stated earlier, it would make “anyone” not want to riot and loot.

[dragnet2]

Uh huh. Sure Andy.

[TigersEye]

FWIW I think you’ve quoted someone else. I didn’t write that.

[gogeo]

Brain fade. Seems to happen more now...

[TigersEye]

I hear that! Wait ... what was this about?