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Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper
Wasn't made a race battle, I made it a justice and protest thing. It's actually widely about class and I can prove it really easily. If the grenfell fire had happened to the gherkin, do you think the cladding on all similar structures would have been replaced by now? Would it be functional again, or would it have been pulled down by now with a replacement building already being erected, and would the people renting office space have been relocated by now?
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To be fair, all of it is a class battle, however race and class are intricately interwoven so a race battle can be a class battle and a class battle can become a race battle. Mostly because race is the easiest way for people to automatically assume class. They dont discriminate because someone is black, they discriminate because they think they are lesser (classist). But, they make the assumption that they are likely to be lesser because they are black (racist).
There are of course a small number of flat-out biological race supremacists, but when it comes down to it, for the vast majority of casual racists the feeling of superiority is socioeconomic, and the racist part is the assumption of socioeconomic status through physical appearance.