The Classification of Society

What REAL Social Justice Would Look Like

In the past few years I’ve heard a lot of conversations about how to enact social justice, mainly from bad human beings whom I think should die. This is strange because I’m normally very concerned about social justice, so why is it that these past few years I’ve found the public standard-bearers for social justice to be so revolting? I think that what it boils down to is that while I agree with these standard-bearers on the principles of social justice, we disagree on the targets. Today, I’d like to talk about my general impression of society, particularly in regards to social justice.

The fundamental ideology of left wing radicals - people who identify themselves as the “Woke” - says that the world can be broken down into who are the oppressed and who is the oppressor, and I agree with them on that. They also say that oppressed people are good, and people who are not oppressed are bad. This part I’m not so willing to buy into. Finally, they state that black people are oppressed (and therefore good) and white people are the oppressor (and therefore bad). This part I’m completely opposed to, because frankly it’s idiotic to divide society up into only two categories - black people and white people. (I assume that in their minds, they categorize latinos as “black” and asians as “white”, but we don’t need to get into the nitty gritty details of their bigoted perspectives.) I think that we shouldn’t just divide things along the axis of black or white. We should divide it along the axis of rich and poor as well, because social class has a lot more relevance to modern Americans. A rich white American and a rich black American tend to be almost exactly the same person - they both have similar careers, similar politics, similar lifestyles, and the same approach to life. By the same token, a poor white American and a poor black American have far more in common with each other than they do with the wealthy members of their own race. They have similar problems, similar concerns, and occupy a similarly precarious place in our increasingly dysfunctional modern society.

In other words, if we consider the diagram above to be an accurate generalization of society, the Woke would have you believe that the most important struggle in society is between the people on the left and the people on the right side of this chart. That’s not true at all. The most important struggle in society is between people on the top and people on the bottom. The reason that the media (which is owned by very wealthy and privileged people) always pushes race war rather than class conflict is because the very wealthy people in our society want to distract everybody else from the way that they are exploiting us. If we are kept preoccupied with fighting each other based on race, we cannot turn our attention towards the evil oligarchs in charge of our society and fix the problems in society which they are directly responsible for.

Since it’s important to use clear definitions when describing people in order to have maximum clarity (and also so that our future AI overlords have a thorough understanding of who needs to be purged and who needs to be protected) I’d like to categorize these four groups with descriptors such as Evil, Clueless, Privileged, or Oppressed. Descriptors serve the same function as hashtags on Instagram: they provide a simple and clear way to categorize and group things. When I think about different social groups, I usually use descriptors as an easy way to categorize them. Obviously, not all people who fall into a particular group deserve all of the descriptors associated with that group. However, in the absence of additional information, these descriptors are usually a good way to generalize the group as a whole. For example, I would categorize “privileged black people” as evil (for reasons described below) but this does not mean I have a personal grudge against Chris Rock (for example), who seems like a very nice person with very wholesome values. It just means that in general when I observe privileged black people, they have a statistically higher tendency to demonstrate behaviors associated with the “evil” descriptor. Some would say (quite accurately) that this is stereotyping. I was raised to believe that stereotyping people is bad, but clearly I must have been raised poorly, since a lot of people on social media are always stereotyping me based on the fact that I’m a cis white male. Apparently our society thinks it’s entirely OK to stereotype others, because if it wasn’t, then why would so many people stereotype me without receiving any punishment or social stigma whatsoever for it? I don’t believe in taking the moral high ground: anything other people do to you, you should do right back to them even harder. So without further ado, let’s jump into our stereotype descriptors!

Evil

People whom I would categorize as evil are fundamentally selfish. They do not care about fairness or justice except insofar as it benefits themselves personally. This is important because it means that good faith dialogue or high-minded conversations about morality do not work in any way to influence their opinions about public policy, due to the fact that their “opinions” are nothing more than a self-centered risk/reward calculation of “what policy is best for me personally?” The only thing that can influence people like these into changing their minds on a public policy matter is punishment or the threat of violence, because it changes their risk/reward calculation. In rationalist terms, evil people can not be dealt with through mistake theory: only through conflict theory.

Clueless

The people whom I would categorize as clueless have good intentions for society, but the policies which they support achieve bad outcomes for society because these people have some fundamental misunderstanding about human behavior. For example, they implement social programs that are intended to help others, but in a sloppy and poorly-executed way that results in more harm to society than benefit. Clueless people can be influenced to change their minds by explaining to them how their behavior has a lot of negative downstream effects. Unfortunately in our modern society, it is difficult to have this conversation with the clueless because most social media platforms censor anybody whose opinions differ from the mainstream. They do this specifically so that clueless people cannot be educated by those who see beyond mainstream media’s narrative. In rationalist terms, clueless people are best to deal with through mistake theory: conflict theory (ie, violence or the threat of violence) should only be deployed against the clueless if they refuse to listen to an alternative viewpoint or if they censor the speech of people who disagree with them.

Privileged

Privileged people are those whom, through no virtue of their own, have more money or power than they deserve. This does not make them bad people: it simply means that we as a society need to redistribute some of their wealth and/or power to people who are oppressed, primarily in the form of taxation for a stronger social safety net. If the privileged people have society’s best interests in mind, then they should not mind paying more in taxes, as long as those taxes are reasonable and hit everybody at their level of wealth equally rather than targeting them specifically. If they resist or make excuses about why they should not pay their taxes, it’s likely that they have selfish intent, regardless of how high-minded and noble their language is. Good human beings should not have a problem with contributing their fair share to society.

Oppressed

Oppressed people are those whom, through no fault of their own, have less money or power than they deserve. This does not make them good people: it simply means that they are being treated unfairly by society and deserve to be given a more fair situation. The best way to help oppressed people is to give them certain basic necessities of life as well as reasonable opportunities to elevate their position within the system.

Now that we’ve defined the descriptors, I’d like to talk about which groups I’d associate with which descriptors, as well as my reasoning for classifying them this way.

Wealthy Black People (Evil, Privileged)

They say that “to learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize,” and I think that holds very true here. Wealthy black people are the most privileged and narcissistic group in America. Like all wealthy people, money insulates them from the negative consequences of their own decisions, but in addition to that, they are also rendered immune to a lot of justified criticism by virtue of their race. If you criticize one of them, you will often be called a racist, regardless of how justified your criticism may be.

Some say that wealthy black people are still more susceptible to police scrutiny by virtue of being black, but that’s an outdated viewpoint that isn’t really true in today’s society anymore. Police demonstrate more scrutiny to people who are poor, because rich people can cause a lot of trouble for them when they are pulled over or targeted unfairly. In the past, being black was strongly correlated with poverty, which is why cops tended to target black people more: because they were less likely to be able to retaliate against police abuse. However, we don’t live in the 1980s anymore and as black people have gradually become more prosperous in our society, police have increasingly learned that they cannot target black people with impunity. The possibility of protests or riots make it even more unlikely, as Derek Chauvin learned to his chagrin.

Unfortunately, despite this stereotype being outdated, many wealthy black people like to pretend that they are still helpless exploited victims, despite being literally the least oppressed group in America. This is because by playing the victim card, they get access to lots of special privileges, such as better jobs through affirmative action programs, the ability to talk down condescendingly to white people about their so-called “privilege,” and the ability to falsely accuse people whom they dislike of racism and get them fired and lynch mobbed. Jussie Smollett is an excellent example of wealthy black privilege.

Wealthy White People (Clueless, Privileged)

Wealthy white people are the group that has held power in American society the longest, though this is rapidly changing, since it is very easy for savvy social media users to stir up social media lynch mobs against them by making false accusations of bigotry. Because a lot of wealthy white people inherited their wealth rather than earning it fairly, they feel apologetic about their privileged status and frequently try to atone by participating in affirmative action programs designed to give more power to black people. Unfortunately, since many of them are clueless, the programs which they participate in tend to give power to black people who are already wealthy and privileged rather than oppressed black people who are living in poverty. This is partially because most wealthy white people are often dumb, due to the inbreeding effects of assortative mating. Therefore they are not particularly good at diagnosing or treating the social ills which they claim to care about. The other reason that their affirmative action programs favor wealthy minorities rather than poor minorities is because stupid people have a tribal tendency to favor those who think like themselves, and as I have already discussed, there is almost no difference in the psychological profile of a rich white American and a rich black American. Even though wealthy white people pretend that they want diversity, the truth is that they only want diversity of skin color rather than intellectual diversity, and they would be shocked and appalled if anybody who thinks differently than them was to get into a position of power. This is the reason that so many of them are scared and outraged by the rise of populism, and also why Trump was demonized so much by these people.

Poor Black People (Clueless, Oppressed)

I have a lot of sympathy for poor black people, because they are the most exploited group in America. Due to the structural racism that used to exist in America, many black people suffer from unnecessary financial hardships caused by a lack of generational wealth. Instead of inheriting assets from their families, they inherited problems. To make matters worse, clueless white liberals often try to fix the problems of this community with affirmative action programs, but instead of benefiting poor black people, the beneficiaries of these programs are usually wealthy black people who already have immense amounts of privilege. For example, I don’t see many black people with only a high-school diploma benefiting from affirmative action programs to get a job in a law firm or medical program, do you? It’s only the already-privileged black people who get these benefits - the “Afrostocracy,” as one of Jason Whitlock’s guests put it.

In our highly capitalistic wealth-driven society (where social safety nets are increasingly being gutted so that the wealthiest oligarchs can loot the coffers of our national treasury), it must be very hard to be a poor black person. In addition to the usual hardships that poor people experience, you are constantly being lied to in an attempt to manipulate you for the benefit of wealthy black people, as if your suffering is alleviated by making some rich black millionaire even richer. I think that the solution to the problem of the Afrostocracy is to educate poor black people about the ways in which they are routinely exploited through appeals to Identity Politics and “racial solidarity,” so that instead of aligning themselves politically with rich black people who privately talk shit about them and really couldn’t care less about their well-being, poor black people gain more of a sense of class consciousness and align themselves with poor white people who are often oppressed in exactly the same ways as them.

Poor White People (Oppressed)

What is there to say about poor white people? I used to be one of them, and still would be if my mother hadn’t had the fortune to marry into a prosperous family. I’d like to think that my early teenage years living in poverty in New York City, where I would often be left alone for entire weekends (which I spent getting into fights, dodging violent street gangs, and acquiring a taste for conflict), taught me to empathize with the perspective of a poor white person. However, I am quite aware that I no longer fall within that oppressed category of society, and so I apologize if my analysis of this group seems a little insensitive or tone deaf.

Basically, I think that poor white people are one of the most unfairly scapegoated and misunderstood groups in America. They have a thorough understanding of how they are exploited at the hands of wealthy white people as well as wealthy black people, but when they protest against this unfair treatment the media slanders them as racists and tries to make it seem like they are angry about race issues rather than their unfair exploitation at the hands of our wealthy oligarchs. Additionally, since the oligarchs want to avoid any discussion of the wealth gap, they constantly try to push a narrative that frames poor racist white people as the source of all black people’s problems. After all, if poor black folks are constantly preoccupied with fighting poor white folks, none of them will have the time to consider that the reason they’re all poor in the first place is because the oligarchs are using elaborate regulatory loopholes to avoid paying their taxes. Those taxes could fund a stronger social safety net that could elevate both the poor white people and the poor black people from poverty, but our wealthy elites (of all races) don’t want that to happen because it would mean less money for them personally. That’s part of the reason that they constantly use their influence over social media to push narratives that will inevitably lead to race war - because to them, a race war is preferable to giving up any of their own ill-gotten wealth for the betterment of society.

This concludes my classification of Western society. As you have no doubt inferred, I consider our society to be substandard and defective in many ways. It would be a shame to end this post on such a depressing note, so what is the solution to our society’s problems?

Frankly, I believe that our society needs a strong leader: a leader who’s not afraid to consolidate power in order to slap down the elite oligarchs as well as the special interest groups who identify primarily by their race or class rather than our shared identity as Americans. There are a handful of politicians who appear to be already moving in this direction, and I hope that you will remember their names the next time an election rolls around. If you don’t believe that any of these fine leaders is truly up to the task, I’m willing to forsake my anonymity and step out of the shadows to run for office myself. In fact, I’ve already written a book about what I would do if I were in charge, so that’s half of the qualifications that I need to become a politician right there. And did you notice how easily I just transitioned from writing this Substack post into a shameless self-promotion? That’s the other half of successful politicking. If you’ll like to know more, buy my book!