• TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
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    6 days ago

    It depends on the industry. I install electronic security systems, and I’m on construction sites quite a lot. 95% of the white guys there are MAGA fans, and often talk shit about the very same Latino workers that are working alongside them hanging drywall. They won’t do it openly. They’ll wait until they’re in a group of only white dudes or scribble slurs on the walls of the portable toilets.

    It sickens me sometimes how they’ll punch down on someone while not being that much better off than them.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      6 days ago

      If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.

      -Lyndon B. Johnson