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It’s the utter terror of letting go of their myths of virtue and exceptionalism

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I read a great essay a while back that argued it all came back to slavery. Basically after abolition a lot of freed slaves ended up working side by side with the white underclass They are generationally resentful of having lost the ability to punch down

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