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@carnage4life There was also just outright denial and a refusal to listen to anyone bringing up practical and ethical problems (like thinking GDP/corporations getting rich somehow means the economy is great for everyone). Upper middle class people like to believe they're better people than they are, it's part of that particular class mythology (and, really, it's very related to Prosperity Gospel, the most American of religions even among people who believe themselves to be secular, but it's also related to education, which traditionally was one way for people of all kinds to move between classes). This is true of people of all types. Sure racism exerts itself even on "respectable" non-White people but that doesn't mean they aren't looking down on and rather desperate to seperate themselves from the poor people who look like them (White supremacy is ultimately about economic and political power). Respectability politics is very much about this. So I think it's not only an online bubble but a class bubble at work.