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It's interesting that class prejudice is exclusively expressed as a racial issue these days.

I’m unsure how you interpreted “downplaying the racial element” and “a dimension in this story” in the GP comment to mean “exclusively.” There are numerous alternatives I can think of that the commenter could have used to indicate exclusivity, but their phrasing seems to clearly (IMO) indicate that it’s simply an element that is underplayed in this article.

When certain races are disproportionately represented in certain classes, you can't help but draw a parallel between the two issues...

I'm not claiming that's the case here (I have no idea if these "riders" referred to in the article are mostly immigrants or not), but it is certainly a common phenomenon.

That is self-contradictory for one unless you are posting from a different era.

There are plenty doing the exact opposite and insisting that all racial prejudice is somehow class based and that "class solidarity" is somehow the natural state of the world. Including infamously demanding that racial minorities basically sit down and shut up because their problems are a "distraction".

I wonder which era one needs to post so as to not be guilty of this unspecified "self" contradiction. Interesting to hear that "plenty" are making such specific demands for a random assortment of unidentified people simply categorized as racial minorities. I guess details aren't necessary when we can just say someone is doing something to some people at some point and it's not good.

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