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It's a quote from the top level comment we're all discussing.

Oh i wasnt sure if it was something from somewhere else.

Are you and the top level comment saying that rural/midwestern poor white americans are competing for jobs against wealthy black americans? I'm just trying to understand what this sentiment means, not trying to be combative or anything

I was just repeating the comment, you'd have to ask the author.

Speaking for myself, I'd discuss things like affirmative action in college admissions, whose advocates would admit a wealthy black person from a prep school before a poor white person from a failing rural school who has better test scores, and call that "social justice".

>I was just repeating the comment, you'd have to ask the author.

But you are repeating and justifying this comment up and down the thread.

As part of the broader discussion of identity politics.

I can't speak to exactly what the original author of the remark meant by those words specifically.

It may have been that at first, but you are also implying that there is a left to which that opinion applies. Where is that coming from?

edit: you answered below

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