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Classism

Many U.S. citizens deny that democratic civility and classism can, and often do, co-exist. These tend to be those who also deny the multigenerational inheritance of enslaving racism in defense of egalitarian beliefs about dignity and indignities of human life, where some have access to personal and habitat and economic health by right, while others, often born multigenerationally poor, have yet to earn their equal health care receiving rights until they have paid their economic care-giving dues for another decade or generation or two or three or more, who knows? So good to know we live in a culture without classism, and certainly without racism. We just think, using that term loosely, that everybody should live equally separately as things have always been since, well... back to the days of slavery and Kings, the way God originally ordained, after the Paradise Forest of Eden, of course, which is all our own damned Original Sin fault. Nodoby would want to go all the way back to that radical absence of classism and racism ReGenerative Creation Story. Or, maybe we would? perhaps we could? possibility we multiculturally should?

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