{"id":194641,"date":"2021-03-05T03:50:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T00:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/americas-elites-are-waging-class-war-on-workers-and-small-biz\/"},"modified":"2021-03-05T03:50:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T00:50:06","slug":"americas-elites-are-waging-class-war-on-workers-and-small-biz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/americas-elites-are-waging-class-war-on-workers-and-small-biz\/","title":{"rendered":"#America\u2019s elites are waging class war on workers and small biz"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#America\u2019s elites are waging class war on workers and small biz<\/strong>”
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In America, class warfare is often disguised as culture war, and culture war is often cloaked by talk of race.\u00a0But underneath it all, the class warfare is still there. Whether accidentally or intentionally, America\u2019s upper classes seem to wind up harming the working class and small businesses, always in the name of some high-minded cause.<\/p>\n

On immigration, for example, the go-to move is to call people who object to open borders racists and nativists.\u00a0But what\u2019s behind it?\u00a0As Biden economic adviser Jared Bernstein commented:\u00a0\u201cA tight job market pressures employers to boost wage offers . . . One equally surefire way to short-circuit this useful dynamic is to turn on the immigrant spigot every time some group\u2019s wages go up.\u201d Immigration as a way of keeping working-class wages down.<\/p>\n

Likewise, efforts to defund police or de-police neighborhoods are treated as anti-racism, but their actual, predictable effect is to make poor and working-class neighborhoods much less safe, in order to make wealthy woke activists feel good about themselves. Similarly, Anthony Lukas\u2019 classic book, \u201cCommon Ground,\u201d told the story of how wealthy white activists placed most of the burden of desegregating Boston\u2019s public schools on poor black and white families, while those behind the policies retreated to leafy suburbs, far from the problems they had created, or made worse.<\/p>\n

Now a report in The New York Times captures a microcosm of the class war that race-talk obscures.\u00a0A black student at Smith College reported being abused because she was black, saying she was treated as if she didn\u2019t belong on campus by a white janitor and campus police officer.\u00a0Her complaints produced a speedy apology from Smith (\u201cWe always try to show compassion for everyone involved,\u201d said Smith President Kathleen McCartney) and mandatory sensitivity training for staff, as well as \u2014 ironically \u2014 the creation of all-black and minority dormitories. As part of the anti-bias training, the school\u2019s blue-collar employees, the Times reports, \u201cfound themselves being asked by consultants hired by Smith about their childhood and family assumptions about race, which many viewed as psychologically intrusive.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then an outside investigation determined that, basically, it never happ<\/a>ened.\u00a0The campus police officer, the janitor and a cafeteria worker had been falsely tarred as racists, but they were not the beneficiaries of apologies, \u201ccompassion for everyone involved\u201d or anything else.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cCheck your privilege\u201d is a common term around higher education, but the notion that white janitors, cafeteria workers and campus police are \u201cprivileged\u201d in that environment is not simply absurd, but monstrous. As Smith janitor Mark Patenaude told the Times, \u201cWe used to joke, don\u2019t let a rich student report you, because if you do, you\u2019re gone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Privilege is the ability to get an employee of many years punished simply by making a complaint, even a false one.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Universities, and especially the woke parts of universities, speak of race more than class.\u00a0And as the Smith incident illustrates, they seldom extend the exquisite sensitivities displayed on matters of race to questions of class discrimination.\u00a0They barely admit such questions exist.<\/p>\n

And yet class war rages, even if people don\u2019t want to talk about it.\u00a0It\u2019s not the Soviet-style class war, with \u201ccapitalists\u201d on one side and \u201cworkers and peasants\u201d on the other, but rather the educated \u201cgentry class\u201d (as demographer Joel Kotkin calls it) making life tough for the working class.<\/p>\n

The gentry class is in firm control of most of the institutions in America, from big corporations, to media<\/a> organizations, to, most especially, colleges and universities.\u00a0The Democrats are the gentry class\u2019 party, as the GOP increasingly becomes a diverse coalition of working-class and small-business people.\u00a0And the gentry class is letting the working class have it.<\/p>\n

Barack Obama boasted about driving coal mines into bankruptcy; Joe Biden tells miners they need to learn how to code.\u00a0There\u2019s talk of forgiving student-loan debt, which would effectively transfer wealth from high-school educated truck drivers to social workers with graduate degrees.\u00a0Biden\u2019s open-borders immigration policy will once again open the \u201cimmigrant spigot\u201d to push working-class wages down.\u00a0Piling ruin upon ruin.<\/p>\n

And just as at Smith, they don\u2019t care who\u2019s hurt, so long as they can strike a pose.\u00a0Is all this accidental? Or is it the product of hostility toward what Hillary Clinton called the \u201cdeplorables?\u201d\u00a0On the receiving end, does it really matter?<\/p>\n

Glenn Harlan Reynolds is a professor of law at the University of Tennessee and founder of the InstaPundit.com blog.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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