• stanleytweedle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t get why anyone is surprised by this sort of thing.

    Because the the idea that the US was founded as a meritocracy is a core cultural myth that’s taught as fact to every new American. There’s value to constantly repeating challenges to pervasive cultural myths. Won’t change anything for us but might help a few in the next generation see past the bullshit sooner than they otherwise would.

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      1 year ago

      There are a lot of middle class Americans to have gained power without being rich, first. They became rich as the rose up. Now it’s questionable how they gained that wealth, but they did do it.