Authoritarianism

The greatest degree of racism is found in the lower classes. The need for a sense of self-worth is such that everyone, however low they are on the scale, want and need to assess themselves as something more than the lowest, and thus better than something.

For those of the lower middle class near the bottom, who cannot distinguish themselves in any other way but race, they may use their race as superiority when that characteristic conforms to elite ideal. While the position of the lower middle class is innate to the system of Progressive Materialism, and where often the reasons for the individual's position, in this class has more to do with oppression and exploitation from the top, they may have a propensity to blame those below them for their own lowly position, because their respect and aspirations are for and to achieve higher status, and they cannot blame what they themselves desire to be. And thus a further use of the Untouchable Class, is scapegoat for oppression from the top and the inequities inherent in the system.

Racism is also an inherent aspect of Right Wing, Pseudo-conservatism, and to a lesser extent the Liberalism as well. Pseudo-conservatives and the middle to upper classes, tend define themselves more by comparison, as equal or to some degree less that the top, using the top as a base. They use and identity with the higher progressive ideals. This strong identification means that they respect, emulate, promote, sustain and defend the values of the top.

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