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Bigotry and prejudice. Not necessarily uneducated, but certainly poorly educated.
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
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Itโs a grift. They (for the most part) donโt care about race and identity politics, they want to keep us arguing with each other so we canโt see behind the curtain.