[paul_grisham]

Common sense, everyone knows it except the white liberal middle class. Why do prison populations group themselves by race and not class?

[TheCoelacanth]

Common sense was that Germans, Italians, Irish, etc. could never integrate into America.

Common sense was that Ocitanians and Bretons could never integrate into France.

Common sense was that hundreds of independent principalities with mutually unintelligible languages could never integrate into Germany and Italy.

Common sense was that Samnium and Lucanium could never integrate into Rome.

Except all of them did and those countries were stronger for it.

[smoldesu]

Because class distinctions aren't meaningful when everyone around you is incarcerated?

[jncfhnb]

I want to believe that in fancy rich people prisons there are gangs formed across university’s attended

[paul_grisham]

But racial distinctions are. So they're relevant in every case, whereas class distinctions are not.

[kadoban]

Because approximately everyone in prison is lower class, almost by definition?