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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
Hey, educated person, try reading what I said.  I didn't say they deserved sympathy. I was responding to the argument made above that we are moving to a class-based society, which I took to mean that prejudice is now based on class more than it's based on race.  There has always been class prejudice in this country but race-based prejudice hasn't gone away, it's just become more subtle.  And yes, I think some white people living in DC forget that racism is still out there because they live in a minority-white city and they're not recognizing that prejudice is alive and well (even within themselves).  But I also think there is a segment of white people living in the District who are still blatantly prejudiced and that it goes beyond class.  (I see it in supposedly liberal Capitol Hill all the time) And I'm absolutely certain there are plenty of whites around the country who hold race-based prejudice that has nothing to do with class whatsoever.

I know there is a regular DCUM poster who emphasizes class prejudice over racial prejudice and I think she has a point but I think she is wrong in the assumption (if I read her correctly) that class prejudice has now eclipsed racial prejudice.  And yeah, I don't think she realizes how scared some white people still are of black people.  It's a baseless fear born out of prejudice and refusal to recognize their own white privilege but it's a fear nevertheless.  And calling it fear doesn't mean it should be accommodated. It should [b]never[/b] accommodated. But how about you try reading more carefully before jumping in to call someone a jackass?[/quote]

I don't know what your goal is, or even if you have a goal. But, you are playing a very negative role in this thread. The poster who brought up class was not talking about prejudice. The word didn't even appear in her post. She was discussing how groups in DC can be categorized. Discussing the city as being divided between black and white is insufficient when there is a segment of black society that has more in common with the white community than with African-Americans of a different socio-economic stratum. She suggested that class is a more accurate metric.

Her argument has nothing to do with which prejudices may or may not exist between groups. Indeed, prejudices exist across many lines with Christians who don't like Jews, straights who don't like gays, whites who don't like blacks and blacks who similarly don't like whites. That is a completely different discussion. Nobody here is denying that there is prejudice against blacks. But, claiming that white people in DC are dominated by an uncontrollable fear of black people is simply ridiculous. Frankly, it's insulting. It is exactly the sort of generalization about a group of people from which racism is born. Moreover, I cannot think of any topic less interesting then a discussion of which prejudice is better or worse then another prejudice. All of them are wrong.
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