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this really just is a case of there are shitty people exactly like you described of every class. i really wouldn't say at all there are more shitty poor people than shitty rich people. rich people being rich alone makes them fucking shitty. lots of the shitty things poor people do, rich people also do but they don't get called on it, don't get caught doing it, have a way of framing it as something classy. go drive through any rich neighborhood and you're gonna find a bunch of people pilled out of their minds, drunk during the day, drugged out on any number of things. the difference is, in the trailer park, people tend to be outside their houses in these conditions where as in the rich part if they're outside it's in their fenced in back yard or in their massive plot of lands where you just wont see them or hear them
look no further than any starbucks drivethru if you wanna see rich people acting worse than however you'd think someone from the trailer park acts
All of this. Not many people would even think to call a shitty rich person white trash, it's a term saved specifically for poor whites. And I feel like I only really hear other white people use it so that they can distance themselves from poverty because poverty is something to abhor
So much this; when the rich do it, it's laughed off or excused.
There was a major member of the British royal family who was revealed to be racist, and the guy who revealed it got death threats
Tbf, I do have different reactions to rich and poor people being super racist.
Rich people? Yeah no shit, that’s how you got here. It’s not acceptable but it’s understandable. My enemies ontologically evil.
Poor people? You’re a class traitor. You should know better. You’re not even benefiting from this arrangement but you hate minorities so much you’re willing to do volunteer work about it.
That is, in fact, very true. My fiance worked at Starbucks and the horror stories she'd tell were pretty close to the 'shitty white trash asshole'. It's completely true that no matter what class we talk about there are shitty people of course. Although I still maintain that there is a certain swath of people that exhibit the tendencies of white trash and just run with it. There's shitty rmiddle class/rich white people and then there's Pam that lives in a trailer, drinks malt liquor and demonizes blacks as 'ruthless animals' while she smokes meth in her living room. That's the true 'white trash' for you.
Pam is a sub-proletarian though, she faces the full front of capitalism and has therefore completely bought into its worldview.