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Classes are always going to exist, friend. People will also always look out for their and their family's best interest before the collective's. Those are all constants and they aren't malevolent. What is malevolent is calling people racist for withdrawing support for a clearly broken system when their children are at stake.

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So, then, the social equivalent of privatize the profits and socialize the losses?

Individualize everything.

A sentiment that can only be expressed by an individual (or group, which bears its own irony) from the (relative) comfort of the accrued benefits of the opposite form of social organisation.

“The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.” ― Hayek

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer

Liberty and freedom aren't the same things. If you're in complete solitary, sure you have complete freedom. But what does that matter? That doesn't comment on how we should structure our societies. Liberty isn't unchecked freedom for every individual. Unchecked freedom for every individual would in fact run counter to preserving liberty for every individual. Unchecked freedom means I can steal your stuff or kill you. Liberty means the opposite; I'm free to do as I please as long as it doesn't infringe your ability to do the same.

Who here is being malevolent and calling other people racist?

Well, their comment is flagged now so I can't directly quote it (drats). More or less they said, "private schools are indicative of racism". In other words, people who send their kids to private schools are racist or support racist constructs? Racism is fairly malevolent.

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