Looking Down on Your Own Class, Race, or Gender Is What Those at the Top Are Counting On to Stay There

A father spends years being treated as though people from his background belong in certain jobs and should stay out of certain rooms. Then his children want something different. A better job. An apartment in the building where he works. An evening in the seats he has spent his life cleaning around.

His response is to remind them who they are.

People like them should be realistic. They should be grateful to have work. They should stop expecting to enjoy the things they have always been paid to maintain.

And the lesson doesn’t necessarily stay at home.

Tantrum Media’s Looking Down on Your Own Class, Race, or Gender Is What Those at the Top Are Counting On to Stay There examines why people discriminate against others of their own class, race, or gender—and how keeping each other down helps those in power stay there.

The real tragedy isn’t when a wealthy stranger tells a father, “You’re only here to clean.” It’s when that father says the same thing to his own children.

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