Hardin on Class Warfare and Human Rights

Lost Coast Outpost columnist John Hardin wrote a good column yesterday dealing with class warfare in Southern Humboldt. Seems to me the same could be written about Eureka or any of the cities north of Garberville: "I didn’t start the class war in Southern Humboldt. I just answered it. I got really sick of seeing the way the middle class treat the poor and homeless around here, and I got sick of the propaganda campaign in the local media. If the poor and homeless of SoHum were black, you’d call it overt, institutional and brutally violent racism, but it just happens to be aimed at mostly white people. It’s just as ugly as racism, and just as hateful, but it’s something different. It’s a caste system, a community segregated by class." I realize many might consider this advocating attracting all the low class bums to our towns. I tend to see it as simply asking that we respect those bums' human right to exist and walk the streets.