• rozodru@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    ok I’m going to TRY to explain his thinking but I’m likely going to come off as racist trying to explain it.

    What he’s saying is there are those who earned their wealth via hard work and all that other bullshit and others that just got it handed to them or give off the impression that they’re insanely wealthy when “they’re not”.

    this is what he likely means when he says “n-word rich”. Because this morons impression of wealth in the Black community is via watching music videos and watching reality TV. He’s watched way too many youtube vids about such and such Black music artist or athlete who wears all this “bling” has all these cars and a huge mansion with nothing in it but meanwhile said person is broke. that’s what he means by “n-word rich”.

    he could have just said “The problem is the majority of billionaires aren’t actually billionaires. They just think they are.”

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      23 hours ago

      That’s what I thought he was saying at first, but that still doesn’t even make any sense though. You are either a billionaire or you are not. I don’t know of anyone who goes around claiming to be a billionaire when they are not, and I could probably name a few who are but never mention it.

      Also why would it be a problem? Is he saying there is not enough of a wealth gap? That’s demonstrably false.

      And what’s with the nature and function bit?

      Sounds to me he’s just spouting hatred to be provocative without any real point.

    • dariusj18@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      Some people like to rebrand the n-word as a non-racial term. Pretending that it is not tied to skin color or racism but behavior.