Nobody hates poor people. Some people hate criminals, which are disproportionately poor, but that is not the same thing.
Nobody gets hate crimed for being an honest person making 20K a year and supporting their family.
Nobody gets hate crimed for being an honest person making 20K a year and supporting their family.
I am frankly not comfortable revealing to my boss or coworkers that I grew up poor because they’ll think of me differently, stop assuming such good thing about me, become wary, etc
Plenty of people hate poor people.
> Some people hate criminals, which are disproportionately poor
Part (or all) of the reason ”criminals are disproportionately poor” is or seems to be the case is that both law making and law enforcement are biased against poor people, in part because some people hate poor people.
> Nobody gets hate crimed for being an honest person making 20K a year and supporting their family.
Yes, when the victimization is through, rather than prohibited by, the law, its not a crime.
None of which, of course, means that class or poverty should replace race (or sex, or LGBTQIA status, or ethnicity, or anything else) in our concerns—life is too complex for only one of those things to be a concern.
I'm not sure what definition you're using for hate. What year is it describing sounds more like a lack of compassion or disinterest.