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[DanaC]

In the 20th Century it would be "Looks like a negro did it"; now it's "Looks like a corporation did it."

These are in no way equivalent.


If you want a real comparison in attitudes, look at the attitude many on the right have towards unions. All bad, all the time.

Or the absolute mistrust of congress: all politicians are the same. All bad, all the time.

Lamplighter's attitude might call up a lot of things - but an equivalent to racism it is not.


I find it slightly baffling sometimes that a lot of people are so instantly hostile to one set of apparently self-serving, though unavoidably neccessary, powerful individuals and the system in which they operate - yet at the same time see any instant hostility to another set of apparently self-serving, though unavoidably necessary, powerful individuals and the system in which they operate as somehow heinous and anti-social.