#so the way race is treated with such severity/extremity in america and racism so normalised and systemic

[hella1975]

has that other anon ever met an upper class brit because i guarantee they wouldn't feel the same after encountering All That

literally 😭 like comparing classism is so dumb when it’s very much a subjective, varied conversation WITHIN a country let alone amongst different countries but that sentiment can and should coexist with the acknowledgement that british classism Does Not Fuck About

#like u cant lob both country's classim under an umbrella term when comparing them #bc our culture and history with it is so wildly different #like american classism IS there and IS a serious problem the irony here is that literally at no point did anyone say otherwise #so idk why anon got so up in arms lol #but the thing about british classism and the reason it gets talked about so much is because it is such a huge part of our lives #and americans never seem to really get that like even americans that acknowledge it i feel still struggle to grasp the severity of it #I’ve seen a lot of much smarter well-researched people say that class and race in the uk and usa are flipped #so while it’s important to note that BOTH countries have serious issues in both departments the way they manifest is different #so the way race is treated with such severity/extremity in america and racism so normalised and systemic #is exactly how class is here #and the way classism is typically more indirect and underlying in america #is how racism is here #does that make sense? there’s a lot of articles online that explain it better #like im explaining it v briefly and it's obviously not that black and white but that's the general gist of it #and if ur american thinking ‘classism doesn’t FEEL indirect for me so you're WRONG’ #then consider im not wrong. that's just how severe it is here for me to be saying it #like idk I can’t stand this narrative anyway of taking away from the original problem to instead have a pissing contest about it #so this will probs be the last I speak about it #but it’s super interesting and it can’t hurt to know more about especially with the prevalence of americacentrism #which is why I responded so harshly to anon to begin with bc like really? #you saw ONE POST that wasn’t about america or american problems and got upset. be serious rn #ask