SOCIOL 63 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: White Supremacy, White Privilege, Ethnic Conflict
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Society is a prison with ruling class (warden and their officials) oppressed (prisoners) . Officials know there is more prisoners than rulers. Hard for guards to restore order: society based on achievement and status, largest number of poor people are white. Maintain private enterprise with class structure: as long as you have private enterprise, you wont get rid of racism. Its based on white supremacy: find someway to transcend private enterprise economy and political structure. White supremacy instead of racism: patriotism is not something to seek. Loyalty to oppressed class: patriotism always involved loyalty to armed forces they"re always right. Discrimination: liberals want to eliminate it, lock people into labor markets, discrimination exists to lock them into lower paying markets, food market = job market, channel them. they"re easily exploitable, understand why discrimination exists. Deliberate policy of ruling class: prejudice does exists.
