i don’t think it’s about hatred of the elites at all. i think it’s about actual immiseration, in material terms, but not only, in status terms as well. everyone feels like a loser, many of us experience real precarity. 1/

racism is a misdirection of this dissatisfaction away from people who enjoy disproportionate material and social status fruits, towards relatively powerless groups who can be tarred nevertheless as usurpers because their relative status has in some ways improved. 2/

the problem, in a sense, is too little targeting of the people who are really elite, in terms of material power, scapegoating instead racial minorities and educated liberals who have been sympathetic to their cause. /fin

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