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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Having lived in Britain, class discrimination definitely goes both ways.

Just as racism does. I don't believe in this tripe about it only being one way. That is mental gymnasium. [/quote]

A big part of racism and classism here stems from the institution of slavery and then government-sponsored actions of redlining. So your example is 100% irrelevant. [/quote]

There has been plenty of white-based class discrimination in the United States that have nothing to do with African Americans, but whites judging other whites based on class. Some of it was rooted in ethnic differences. People used to look down on the Irish for being Irish and Catholic, for example. And discrimination against people from Italian heritages was quite real for a long time, because they were seen as "ethnic" and "swarthy" and working class.

And even among people of white Northern European protestant heritages there's always been class nuances and class differences. Spend time in any heavily white small town and you'll see the differences. The white trash was a real thing and poor working whites were often judged and discriminated against as not being respectable.

Even today classism is still pervasive in many ways among the general white population, even if it is not as severe as it may have been in the past, and not as severe as it ever was in Europe. I see it on DCUM all the time. The sneering at Trump voters in WV, for example, reeks of classicism.

I've noticed that in recent decades some people are so obsessed with racism and seeing everything through the prism of black-white racial relationships that they forget, or outright ignore, there's a huge and old history of social discrimination of all stripes in America. Because discrimination is as old as humanity. We are always judging each other and finding reasons to segregate people by values and beliefs and morals and behaviors. Race and ethnicity are just a few of the ways people have divided and judged themselves. [/quote]

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