(February 16, 2017 at 1:31 am)CanOfMountainDew Wrote: Literally the only thing that creates classes and the space between classes, in the US, is money. That's it. That is to say, for example, that a rich black person is more privileged than a poor white person.
Exactly, and that's what I don't understand here. Money and good looks are both universally considered to be acceptable reasons for granting privilege to someone, and it's still completely socially acceptable to oppress the poor and the ugly.