“Cultural products that present people who have no money or power as innately stupid or depraved, and thus unworthy of money or power, are in the interests of the ruling class and the power structure as it stands.”

—  Meredith Tax

Source: "Culture is not Neutral, Whom Does it Serve?" (1972), p. 15

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