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[โ€“] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Coping mechanism for the poor, they can't admit they're at the bottom and so it feels good to put other people down for nonsense reasons

[โ€“] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 9 points 1 year ago

Or it can be a strategy. A white sharecropper is just as poor as a black sharecropper, but the white sharecropper has a higher place in society.

[โ€“] cedarmesa@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)